jeremiad

• Nom désignant une longue et douloureuse plainte ou lamentation, souvent exprimant une profonde tristesse ou un ressentiment.

A noun referring to a long, mournful complaint or lamentation, often expressing deep sorrow or grievance.

1. Long mournful complaintC2formal

   A prolonged and sorrowful lamentation or complaint, often about a situation or the state of society.

   Jérémiade (longue plainte)

   • The politician's speech turned into a jeremiad about the decline of moral values.
   • Her letter to the editor was a jeremiad against modern technology.
   • The book is a jeremiad on the loss of traditional craftsmanship.

   Synonymescomplaintdiatribelamentlamentationphilippicscreedtiradewail