jeremiad

IPA: dʒɛrʌmˈaɪʌd

A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.

Examples of "jeremiad" in Sentences

The lady cried after her jeremiad.
So are all political commentators writing a Jeremiad every week
What it doesn't do is engage in a wordy jeremiad about pseudoscience.
Elena was living the American Dream, so what was that jeremiad all about
Ms. Kogan's particulars in her jeremiad above are mostly factually wrong.
Mainly, though, the note was a rambling jeremiad against the United States.
The White House's press secretary Thursday continued the administration's jeremiad.
That has led to a jeremiad mentality, epitomized by Al Gore and the scathing warnings.
It was quite a jeremiad, capped with his assertion that she had turned their children against him.
Today's conservatives tend to adopt a traditionally Protestant stance towards the culture, the jeremiad.