jeremiad
- a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
Origin of jeremiad
Related Words for jeremiad
diatribe, screed, revilement, ranting, philippic, condemnation, censure, tongue-lashing, malediction, invective, denunciation, vituperation, fulmination, anger, lecture, harangue, sermon, dispute, beratingExamples from the Web for jeremiad
Contemporary Examples of jeremiad
The Task Force report is a blend of modern bureaucratese and the old Judeo-Christian tradition of the jeremiad.
Huckabee should deliver a jeremiad lambasting Washington for its role in fostering the housing collapse and the Great Recession.
But neither is it a rigorous sociological study or a polemic or a jeremiad.
Historical Examples of jeremiad
The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham.
The Works of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe
There was just truth enough in the Jeremiad to make it sting.
Tracks of a Rolling StoneHenry J. Coke
However, here is my jeremiad after all; it seems to have been inevitable!
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich TchaikovskyModeste Tchaikovsky
Now I've done my Jeremiad, and I will go on twanging my harp in the "willow tree."
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott
To-night, however, there were variety and spice with his Jeremiad.
The Goose GirlHarold MacGrath
jeremiad
- a long mournful lamentation or complaint
Word Origin and History for jeremiad
1780, from French jérémiade (1762), in reference to "Lamentations of Jeremiah" in Old Testament.