Example Sentences

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Usually, we get preachiness or something clean-cut and easy to discern.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025

I wonder if he chose these stories, in part, because their ambiguity militates against this tendency toward preachiness.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2021

Cadogan writes that despite a forgivable preachiness, the book “remains an addictively gripping saga of love, frustration and limited fulfillment, and possibly still the greatest of all single-sex romance stories.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2019

But the self-conscious preachiness and gaseous prose of the first book have been toned down.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2018

Alan felt abashed at having scolded the little alien that way, but he did not know how to make proper amends; besides, he was annoyed at Rat's preachiness.

From Starman's Quest by Mack, Stan