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 preachy 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 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 The narrative has its share of tonal inconsistencies that can make the film feel quite preachy. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for preachy
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Adjective
  • But Europeans cannot simply revert to a moralistic tendency to tell others what to do.
    Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
  • The same moralistic spirit that once defined Minnesota’s politics now fuels passionate polarization.
    David Schultz, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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

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“Preachy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preachy. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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