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Jeremiad   /dʒˌɛrəmˈaɪəd/   Listen
Jeremiad

noun
1.
A long and mournful complaint.





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"Jeremiad" Quotes from Famous Books



... her mother and Dulac were seated at the table her mother began a characteristic Jeremiad. "I hope you ain't coming down with a spell of sickness. Seems like sickness in the family's about the only thing I've been spared, though other things worse has been aplenty. Here we are just in a sort of ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... course he will give you plenty of trouble at first. He will have his bad days, and try to make you as miserable as he is himself, but you must prepare yourself for that. Think what a boon it will be to him to turn in here and find some one ready to listen to his jeremiad." Then Dinah ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey


Words linked to "Jeremiad" :   complaint


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