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
Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
Trump had been preaching about this for the longest time.
—ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2025
Sorkin expertly balanced his attitude toward the news, which in later seasons became preachy, with the interpersonal dynamics of the newsroom, including various romantic dramas and the battle for the soul of the network.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Her advice extends beyond entrepreneurs and CEOs: Countless leadership experts and business books preach the value of delegation.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
Trump had been preaching about this for the longest time.
—ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
The narrative has its share of tonal inconsistencies that can make the film feel quite preachy.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2025
Sorkin expertly balanced his attitude toward the news, which in later seasons became preachy, with the interpersonal dynamics of the newsroom, including various romantic dramas and the battle for the soul of the network.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
Verb
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The comedian, presenter, and movie star has reinvented himself as a Christian convert who evangelizes about free speech and free thinking.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2025
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The middle line of leadership is in the trenches working the day-to-day and has the greatest opportunity to evangelize the future state vision to drive productive change.—
Laurie Waligurski,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 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 the moralistic sneer didn’t take long to enter the postgame analysis.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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The story is predictably moralistic and, frankly, more worried about conforming to contemporary mores than accurately representing what was going on in Cuba in the 1950s, dramatically speaking anyway.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Over the slow build of the season, character details emerge without need for much didactic exposition.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
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And the less said about the didactic, exasperating finale, the better.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Preach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preach. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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