as in to mouth (off)
to talk as if giving an important and formal speech an arrogant scholar who never passes up an opportunity to posture and perorate on stunningly unimportant matters

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Recent Examples of perorate As a black spiritual hums on the soundtrack, Hooded Justice perorates about the legacy of being the victim—not the complicit or recruited perpetrator—of violence: My mama played the piano right over there. Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
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  • On Wednesday afternoon, ABC News first reported that Trump spoke with conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito one day before the president-elect asked the court for the immediate stay.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
  • On Tuesday, the day before his attorneys filed their emergency appeal in the high court, Trump arranged to speak with Alito about one of his former clerks.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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  • And, of course, discourse about the current state of democracy certainly isn’t unique to Korea.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • But by Obama’s second term in office, discourse about the importance of representation in media had intensified, and the show came under fire in 2013 for not featuring a Black woman cast member in five years.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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  • Her frugal immigrant parents bring their own food, and Nate’s meddlesome mom harangues her son about his career and her desperation for a grandchild.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Duell’s co-stars shared their thoughts in the Instagram comments, simultaneously congratulating and haranguing him.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024

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“Perorate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perorate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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