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Jeremiad

British pronunciation/dʒˈɛɹəmˌɪad/
American pronunciation/ˌdʒɛɹəˈmaɪəd/
Jeremiad
[NOUN]
1

a very lengthy and heartbreaking complaint

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Examples
1That sounds like an old jeremiad.
2I began with a jeremiad against the National Audubon Society, broadened it into a scornful denunciation of the environmental movement generally, and then started waking up in the night in a panic of remorse and doubt.
3Why do a comic, fraudulent, jeremiad take down of every article, Amendment and the Preamble, rather than just point at it and say, "Hey, it's not so bad."
4I mean, I would like to just hear Eddie give that jeremiad to the American people.
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