jeremiad

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

A heavy dousing of rain kept a share of the seats empty at the Kennedy Center on Thursday night, with at least one critic considering filing a scathing jeremiad against his own worthless umbrella.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

Starting from the sinister change in the racing-world—so plutocratic now, with the American seat, the increase of bookmaking owners, and other tragic occurrences—he launched forth into a jeremiad on the condition of things in general.

From Beyond by Galsworthy, John