as in moralizing
marked by or given to preaching moral values
the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion
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Recent Examples of didactic
Because the movie doesn’t convincingly disavow materialism (at least as embodied by Pascal), the main character’s choice to do so feels didactic and contrived.
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Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
The film’s slavish dedication to its source material — the challenging of which would open its own can of worms — demands ignoring all potential complexity in favor of didactic conclusions.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 June 2025
Thankfully, Keller’s scripts aren’t as twee or didactic about this stuff as Lasso and Shrinking creator Bill Lawrence’s tend to be.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 June 2025
Prose can do these things too, but the model is often more didactic, explanatory, and, at its worst, plodding.
—Rebecca Solnit
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
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Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
The film’s slavish dedication to its source material — the challenging of which would open its own can of worms — demands ignoring all potential complexity in favor of didactic conclusions.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 June 2025
Thankfully, Keller’s scripts aren’t as twee or didactic about this stuff as Lasso and Shrinking creator Bill Lawrence’s tend to be.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 June 2025
Prose can do these things too, but the model is often more didactic, explanatory, and, at its worst, plodding.
—Rebecca Solnit
may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for didactic
Adjective
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His disdain for the brothers’ moralistic literary choices was clear.—
Time,
Time,
23 July 2025
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Intervention by authorities has Indian moviegoers fuming, who accuse the censors of making moralistic changes while adopting a double standard for Bollywood films, which are often laced with innuendos, misogyny and sensual scenes.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Newsom is also instructive here.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The turn for the worse is instructive.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And then when a script like that is also about something without being too preachy, right?—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Lawrence isn't preachy in his attempt to make this film an emotional gut-punch.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The preacher’s experience, insights and emotions all come into play when composing the homiletic text.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
6 July 2023
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There’s a word for this style of narrative preaching—homiletic.—
Jo Livingstone,
The New Republic,
6 Apr. 2021
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“Didactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didactic. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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