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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
preachy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's not a bad book, but it's a bit preachy.
▪ Much of the film is preachy, pretentious, and slow.
▪ The last part of your report gets a little preachy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it is a strength of her moving and dazzling achievement that Abbott is never conventional, preachy or platitudinous.
▪ I never intended to get preachy.
▪ They were all very earnest, but preachy.
▪ Your tone was so stern and pure and preachy, it excited me.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
preachy

1819, from preach + -y (2). Related: Preachiness.

Wiktionary
preachy

a. Tending toward excessive moralization.

WordNet
preachy

  1. adj. inclined to or marked by tedious moralization

  2. [also: preachiest, preachier]

Usage examples of "preachy".

It sounds preachy, I know, to say that all buildings depend for their real beauty upon the spirit of the people who inhabit them.

He paused, taking a moment to get out of what had been referred to as his preachy mode.

Their letters were long and preachy, taking pains to explain why his behavior had been wrong.

Because they are gifted at neither metaphysics nor dialogue, Reloaded plays like a cross between a video game and a preachy episode of Star Trek.

I can recollect you telling me more than once in that preachy tone of thine that in England at least being a private citizen outranks any level of public service you care to mention.

Melody Beattie (1987) describes codependents as angry, controlling, preachy, blaming, hard to talk to, subtly manipulative, amorphous non-persons, and generally miserable.