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"cause for complaint" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a problem or reason for dissatisfaction, usually with someone or something. For example: "The long wait times were a cause for complaint among the customers."
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The author had some cause for complaint.
So Biron had no cause for complaint.
The performances, predictably, gave no cause for complaint.
As teaching goes, I have little cause for complaint.
"I think sometimes my party had cause for complaint.
Happily, the music gave no cause for complaint.
Were these images sexualised, there might be cause for complaint.
If this were a valid calculation, she might well have cause for complaint.
"Things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint".
But it is not only rivals that have had cause for complaint during her tenure.
Dr. Crick gave his younger colleague no equivalent cause for complaint.
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