;Posted on 08/03/2015 5:06:07 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 8/3/15
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
screed; noun/verb noun 1. a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.
3. Building Trades. a.a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface. b.a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like. c.a board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level.
4. British Dialect. a fragment or shred, as of cloth.
5. Scot. a.a tear or rip, especially in cloth. b.a drinking bout. verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 6. Scot. to tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.
Etymology: n.
early 14c., "fragment," also "strip of cloth," from northern England dialectal variant of Old English screade (see shred (n.)). Meaning "lengthy speech" is first recorded 1789, from notion of reading from a long list.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Here is my example with WFTD.
Not content with publishing screeds against these hunters, the PETA type loons are out to ruin these guys lives. This second guy lives very near where I grew up, which has caused me to take interest in this story.
No pushing at the door please!
Good Morning. Whatever you do, don’t kill any lions today, mkay?
In ‘Merica we don’t scriminate based on Srace, Scolor or Screed.
LOL!! good one! A+++ sgreat!
There are pundits who feel the need
and for their case they make to plead,
but because my eyes begin to bleed
I don’t need to read the screed.
Obama’s round-the-world tour both at the beginning of his reign and now, nearing the end, involves regular blaming of America for the ills of the world and misguided screeds against American exceptionalism that Americans shouldn’t take lying down.
I hear ya! A+++
he is loathsome. A+++
Anything written by Maureen Dowd...
The Orthodox Christian “extremist” known as “Honorary Serb” is posting a mini-screed that says that no one should visit or have anything to do with the country that calls itself “Zimbabwe”.
That is the REAL ISSUE behind this “lion-killing thing”!!!!
One thing we definitely don’t need
From one who has shown so much greed
Is another artillery
Blast from Hillary
In one of her screaming, long winded screeds.
Inscreed.
screeching harridan writes scathing screeds. A+++ where’s your pic of Catherine zeta jones ; ) ?
A+++ yes, animal rights trump human rights don’t they?
excellent ! A++++
Ms. Mosby’s last anti-cop screed
Asserts Freddy should have been freed
Police didn’t buy it
So the thugs had to riot
(Though the looting was purely from greed)
Another excellent submission! A++++ will they dig up the asphalt from wherever he died like they did for Mike Brown? honestly, the world is INSANE and deteriorating by the minute.
Screed: the noise made by an establishment Republican, an academic Liberal, or a mainstream media person when someone fights back against them.
I’m sure that if Freddy Gray hadn’t thrown himself against the walls of the van, he would be still be a productive member of society, probably finding a cure for cancer.
:applause: Perfect!
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