jeremiad
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jeremiad
1770–80; Jeremi(ah) + -ad 1 in reference to Jeremiah's Lamentations
Example Sentences
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His underlying idea isn’t a jeremiad against AI as a whole, but that the market has detached from reality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
I don’t intend this column to be either a jeremiad or a lambasting of marijuana.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
But the HBO show is a savage jeremiad, inspiring sympathy for its characters only insofar as they’re prisoners of familial pathology.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2022
After this jeremiad for a nation in crisis, one wonders how Osnos can possibly suggest a way out.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021
Nothing could be conceived more excellent as a weapon against many of those peccant humours that we have been railing against in the jeremiad of our last ‘College Paper’—particularly in the field of intellect.
From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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