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skreed
noun
a long boring speech or written document
1898The Inca of PerusalemTHE INCA. Well, why not! An Inca can do nothing. He is tied hand and foot. A constitutional monarch is openly called an India-rubber stamp. An emperor is a puppet. The Inca is not allowed to make a speech: he is compelled to take up a screed of flatulent twaddle written by some noodle of a minister and read it aloud.1915The Gray DawnPrivate facetiousness had labelled most of them with signboards. These were rough pictures of disaster painted from the marking pot, and various screeds—'Head of Navigation,' 'No Bottom,' 'Horse and Dray Lost Here,' 'Take Soundings,' 'Storage, Inquire Below,' 'Good Fishing for Teal,' and the like.1994Heavenly CreaturesMISS WALLER gestures at a screed of subjugated verbs scrawled on the blackboard.Labels: Frances Walsh and Peter Jackson, George Bernard Shaw, Stewart Edward White
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