Jeremiad
noun | /jeremiad/
A long, mournful complaint or denunciation, especially one predicting disaster or lamenting decline.
Jeremiad
noun | /jeremiad/
Advanced WordsHARDA long, mournful complaint or denunciation, especially one predicting disaster or lamenting decline.
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"The editorial became a jeremiad about the decline of civic responsibility. Means: The editorial turned into a long, mournful complaint about declining civic responsibility."
"Rather than offer solutions, his speech was a jeremiad about everything that had gone wrong. Means: Instead of suggesting fixes, his speech consisted of a prolonged complaint about problems."
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A jeremiad is a lament like the biblical prophet Jeremiah’s warnings and mournful complaints.
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