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
Like all serious candidates, Cruz had come to Des Moines to speechify and work the crowd in hopes of eventually getting to the White House.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2015
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
She couldn’t sleep thinking about the difference between what was on the recording and what Herrera speechified about at her fundraiser with the Black Women’s Democratic Club — his talk of solidarity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
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
The two gentlemen alternately speechified the judge and jury for several hours; after which the judge passed sentence on the culprit, and the two lawyers left the court-house.
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by Woodward, A.
That’s actually not a lot of speechifying if you look at it proportionally.
From Salon ● May 28, 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
As this druid high priestess, caught in a forbidden love triangle with a Roman soldier and a fellow priestess, Yoncheva can be forceful in declamation — the singing that’s more like speechifying.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2023
Beside him, Jules sipped her drink and rolled her eyes at his speechifying.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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