screed

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Nowhere in the screed was there mention of taking donations from violent fascist dictators to fund buildings where sick people would be given a cot on which to starve to death.

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  1. noun A long monotonous speech or piece of writing.
  2. noun A strip of wood, plaster, or metal placed on a wall or pavement as a guide for the even application of plaster or concrete.
  3. noun A layer or strip of material used to level off a horizontal surface such as a floor.
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  • And they scream bloody murder when you try and take them away from them. about Charity's screed is the amount of projection. —  Green Mountain Daily - Front Page
  • They were redirected to another site under the control of a hacker, who posted an 89-word screed criticizing the protests in Iran. —  Statesman - AP Sports
  • They were redirected to another site under the control of a hacker, who posted an 89-word screed criticizing the —  WN.com - Business News
  • Nowhere in the screed was there mention of taking donations from violent fascist dictators to fund buildings where sick people would be given a cot on which to starve to death. —  Planet Atheism
  • If you post another irrelevant screed, all the lurkers on this thread will be forced to make another conclusion about your ethics. —  California Literary Review
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  1. Middle English screde, fragment, strip of cloth, from Old English scrēade, shred.

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  1. A variant of shred; from Middle English screde, Anglo-Saxon screáde, a shred: see shred, an assibilated form, with shortened vowel.
  2. A variant of shred, v., as screed, n., is of shred, n.: see screed, n., and shred, v.
 

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