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
Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Udoka has preached discipline, accountability and respect, demanding his players adhere to a team concept, and has seen a unified response almost immediately.
—Kelly Iko, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Image In these poems reaching back before exile, Milosz seems preachier and more self-conscious than in later work — the special pleading is not special, despite the reader’s indulgent sympathies.
—William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Erdogan, who has set a record in suppressing the freedoms and rights of his citizens, as well as his country's opposition, dares to preach to others.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Udoka has preached discipline, accountability and respect, demanding his players adhere to a team concept, and has seen a unified response almost immediately.
—Kelly Iko, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Adjective
There’s nothing preachy or self-righteous about Frank’s writing.
—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Image In these poems reaching back before exile, Milosz seems preachier and more self-conscious than in later work — the special pleading is not special, despite the reader’s indulgent sympathies.
—William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
Verb
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The community reinforces your beliefs and extends your reach as members naturally evangelize your approach.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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All these men have the right combination of assets, holiness, organizational skills, ability to evangelize.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2023
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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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But Europeans cannot simply revert to a moralistic tendency to tell others what to do.—
Josep Borrell Fontelles,
Foreign Affairs,
27 June 2025
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The same moralistic spirit that once defined Minnesota’s politics now fuels passionate polarization.—
David Schultz,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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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
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Nautilus is bold in its changes to Captain Nemo’s story — new monsters, new villains — but imitative to other genre series in execution, and the vibe is a little didactic.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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“Preach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preach. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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