jeremiad
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of jeremiad
1770–80; Jeremi(ah) + -ad 1 in reference to Jeremiah's Lamentations
Example Sentences
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So much for the phony public jeremiads from Norman and his chief recruiter, Mickelson, about how LIV is some kind of liberation from PGA Tour oppression and is the future of the game.
From Washington Post
We took her art, composed of crystalline jeremiads rendered in bold sans serif fonts, and slapped it on our refrigerators.
From Washington Post
Case in point: Carlson’s endlessly denounced, exhaustively parsed jeremiad against masks on his Fox News show on Monday night.
From New York Times
The enormous popularity of these jeremiads, even more than their profusion, would appear to contradict their alarmist thesis.
From New York Times
But Trump may be stuck with the old platform, which is peppered with jeremiads about the “current administration” that were originally written about President Barack Obama.
From Seattle Times
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