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
Vikram Joshi, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Campbell allowed these individuals to preach, teach Sunday school and volunteer with children.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 12 May 2025
Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
But in practice, that has meant coming off as stiff, preachy, and painfully out of touch.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
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Verb
They’re preached as the golden keys to success, with entire industries—technology, media and even education—rallying around them as essential components of future growth.
—Vikram Joshi, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Campbell allowed these individuals to preach, teach Sunday school and volunteer with children.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 12 May 2025
Adjective
Such preachy, doctrinaire, often repellant art may be made to draw attention to this or that social issue, but it is surely not produced to entertain.
—Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
But in practice, that has meant coming off as stiff, preachy, and painfully out of touch.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
Verb
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The two traveled to China to evangelize, but became severely ill.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Our Seek the City to Come initiative harnessed the wisdom of 6,000 voices that guided my decision to revitalize parishes as evangelizing missionary centers.—
William E. Lori,
Baltimore Sun,
24 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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Aster isn’t merely mocking them; his real point is that moralistic self-righteousness has become a kind of addiction in America.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
16 May 2025
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But the moralistic sneer didn’t take long to enter the postgame analysis.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In the wrong hands, this could be too didactic and clumsy, but it’s deftly executed, and the integration of songs, drama, and dance is seamless—and often stunning.—
Daniel Dylan Wray,
Pitchfork,
8 May 2025
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Unfortunately, the question of how much worth is placed on an Israeli life versus a Palestinian one is answered mostly in words, and thus, in too direct (and perhaps too didactic) a fashion, when so much of the movie’s drama could have grounded it emotionally.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Preach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preach. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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