preachy
adjective
tediously or pretentiously didactic.
preachiness
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a word derived from
preachy.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Usually, we get preachiness or something clean-cut and easy to discern.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025
The best part about it is that it’s delivered in such an open, honest, straightforward manner, without any conceit or preachiness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
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
This literature of a sunless Decadence has spread widely, by virtue of its own uncleanness, and its leading characteristics are gloom, ugliness, prurience, preachiness, and weedy flabbiness of style.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
