as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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as in moralizing
marked by or given to preaching moral values
the students rolled their eyes as their principal launched into another preachy lecture about behavior at the prom
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Recent Examples of preach
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Vrabel preached winning the second half heading into Sunday’s game.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Verb
It’s set in a small-town community in upstate New York, where the long-gray-haired and bearded Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) is the contempo version of a fire-and-brimstone cult leader, preaching fury in the form of piety.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Vrabel preached winning the second half heading into Sunday’s game.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
In addition, the portrayal of the cultural setup between the dominant Alba and subservient Colorata is handled in a refreshingly non-preachy manner.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
Verb
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Is the cause of Wings something that really needs to be … evangelized?—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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Celebrities evangelize companies when something fixes a personal frustration.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.—
Jared Yates Sexton,
The New Republic,
25 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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The heroine of Mansfield Park, Fanny Price, is the most moralistic young person in her household (and the most ignored).—
Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
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What matters is a heavy focus on aesthetic and moralistic perfection.—
Olivia Crandall,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Such subtlety may not necessarily be what readers—perhaps American readers, in particular—expect from political fiction, which can have a reputation for being didactic and heavy-handed, designed to beat readers over the head, as if anything political were made in the mode of Soviet realism.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
5 Sep. 2025
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Curiosity is almost a like a science, didactic and patient.—
Alexandra Bregman,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Preach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preach. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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