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Screed

noun

A long monotonous harangue.

A long piece of writing.

An accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete.

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"Screed" Quotes from Famous Books

... Literary Review give it half a page this week? Hasn't it been scissored by almost every exchange editor in the land? Isn't there a man in the city-room now offering me fifteen thousand a year to write a daily screed ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various

... authoritatively, by way of reply to a scornful gesture made involuntarily by Lucien. "So far from finding a publisher obliging enough to risk two thousand francs for an unknown writer, you will not find a publisher's clerk that will trouble himself to look through your screed. Now that I have read it I can point out a good many slips in grammar. You have put observer for faire observer and malgre que. Malgre is a preposition, and requires ...

— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac

... eyes and I said, "You were right all along, Danny! You were right to trust and believe in him! He was grateful!"—and I held the envelope where he could see it,—the one I had addressed in a silly, flowing screed. ...

— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Words linked to "Screed" : writing, harangue, ranting, piece of writing, rant, strip, written material, slip