speechify
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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to make a speech or speeches
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to talk pompously and boringly
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While political theater, as a genre, has a tendency to speechify about sociopolitical issues from the safety of the stage, Rau at least gets up close to his subjects.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
That’s less the case in the equally unproductive covid-era, where the co-hosts, broadcasting from their homes, are now given minute-long soapboxes to speechify on the issue du jour.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
If Mr. Jacquemus is going to make it off the backbenches to speechify on the floor, he needs to extend his range.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2018
Who outside of Aaron Sorkin’s world stops in the middle of their office full of people who work for a union to speechify about the importance of unions?
From Time ● Sep. 27, 2012
We soon learned that meant he was about to speechify us.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
The White House hopefuls speechified, shook hands, hugged, smiled for selfies and signaled to neglected California Democrats — simply by being here — that they and their home state matter very much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2019
In 2006, they steered McCain to attend a dinner with the oligarch at a chalet near Davos, where Deripaska speechified for the 40 or so guests.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2016
There was a time when lawmakers really meant it when they speechified about education being an investment in the nation’s future.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2016
But as the dignitaries speechified, biologists were discovering the creosote-bush-studded landscape was crawling with some uninvited guests: desert tortoises.
From Forbes ● Jun. 8, 2011
Don't you now recall distinctly how we speechified till hoarse, Trying to convince the people what was just the proper course?
From Oklahoma Sunshine by Miller, Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin)
That’s actually not a lot of speechifying if you look at it proportionally.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Whatever the risks of his speechifying, you had to admire — here in our age of political infotainment — the natural finesse with which Springsteen threaded his prepared rhetoric into Tuesday’s set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
After his Woodland Park appearance, plus a downtown parade and reception at Volunteer Park, his major speechifying ended at the UW.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
She's fine with Edgin acting as the squad's leader, the guy whose main weapons are a lute and speechifying.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
Beside him, Jules sipped her drink and rolled her eyes at his speechifying.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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