noun. A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.

noun. Lamentation; an utterance of grief or sorrow; a complaining tirade: used with a spice of ridicule or mockery, implying either that the grief itself is unnecessarily great, or that the utterance of it is tediously drawn out and attended with a certain satisfaction to the utterer.

noun. A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically.

noun. 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.

noun. a long and mournful complaint

"Keillor’s jeremiad is wrong on so many levels, and proceeds from a place of such monumental self-regard and fundamental misinformation, that a proper rebuttal would require an entire afternoon and a minimum of ten double-spaced pages."

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