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What is the adjective for preachily?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs preach and preachify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

preachy
  1. Tending toward excessive moralization.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. moralistic, moralising, moralizing, sententious, didactic, homiletic, sermonic, homiletical, priggish, sanctimonious, pietistic, pious, pontifical, Pharisaic, sermonising, sermonizing, Pharisaical, dogmatic, self-righteous, holier-than-thou, unco guid, pompous, smug, unctuous, canting, superior, pi, instructional, instructive, edifying, goody-goody, expository, self-satisfied, doctrinal, pedantic, teaching, hypocritical, Pecksniffian, judgmental, judgemental, religiose, complacent, Tartuffian, mealy-mouthed, too good to be true, sermonical, admonitory, disciplinary, preaching, preachifying … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I'm amazed at how preachy and judgemental everyone is being in this thread.”
      “The film's web site is remarkably preachy, posturing the movie as a landmark in the battle against sexual harassment.”
      “Forgive me sounding preachy but the character in our neighbourhoods, heritage and iconic landscape will be utterly lost.”
preacherlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a preacher.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Looking like no stranger to hard work, Jim was tall and lean with a deep, resonant, preacherlike voice and manner.”
      “The preacherlike man asked his friend, who had become silent.”
preachable
  1. Capable of being preached.
preacherly
  1. Befitting a preacher.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Paradoxically, there is a preacherly tone to his exhortations that, now more than ever, celebrate and justify secularism and non-belief.”
preachier
  1. comparative form of preachy: more preachy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. more moralistic, more sententious, more didactic, more homiletic, more sermonic, more homiletical, more priggish, more sanctimonious, more pietistic, more pontifical, more dogmatic, more self-righteous, more instructional, more instructive, more edifying, more pompous, more pedantic, smugger, more sermonical, more judgemental, more judgmental, more Pecksniffian, more disciplinary, more admonitory, more self-important, more upright, more strait-laced, more high-minded, more educational, more informative, more informational, more educative, more illuminating, more academic, more pedagogic, more scholastic, more preceptive, more bookish, more improving, more heuristic, more donnish, more propaedeutic, more erudite, more advisory, more formal, more schoolmasterly, abstruser, more moral, more exhortative, more teacherly … more
preachiest
  1. superlative form of preachy: most preachy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. most moralistic, most sententious, most didactic, most homiletic, most sermonic, most homiletical, most priggish, most sanctimonious, most pietistic, most pontifical, most dogmatic, most self-righteous, most instructional, most instructive, most edifying, most pompous, most pedantic, smuggest, most sermonical, most judgmental, most judgemental, most Pecksniffian, most disciplinary, most admonitory, most self-important, most upright, most high-minded, most strait-laced, most educational, most informative, most informational, most educative, most illuminating, most academic, most pedagogic, most scholastic, most preceptive, most bookish, most improving, most heuristic, most donnish, most propaedeutic, most erudite, most advisory, most formal, most schoolmasterly, abstrusest, most moral, most hortative, most teacherly … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Sohn has similar strengths and weaknesses as an actress, compounded by the fact that her character is stuck with the film's preachiest dialogue.”
preached
  1. simple past tense and past participle of preach
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sermonised, sermonized, addressed, addrest, declaimed, evangelised, evangelized, expatiated, orated, perorated, spoke, spake, spoken, talked, discoursed, gospelized, homilized, lectured, spouted, delivered, gave a sermon, given a sermon, delivered sermon, gave sermon, given sermon, preached a sermon, spread the gospel, delivered an address, pontificated, sounded off, spieled, harangued, held forth, speechified, mouthed off, preachified, expounded, droned on, made a speech, stumped, jawed, made a statement, addressed an audience, pronounced, descanted, ranted, taught, fulminated, argued, spouted off … more
preaching
  1. present participle of preach
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sermonising, sermonizing, addressing, declaiming, evangelising, evangelizing, expatiating, orating, perorating, speaking, talking, discoursing, gospelizing, homilizing, lecturing, spouting, delivering, giving a sermon, delivering sermon, giving sermon, preaching a sermon, spreading the gospel, delivering an address, pontificating, sounding off, spieling, haranguing, holding forth, speechifying, mouthing off, preachifying, expounding, droning on, getting on a soapbox, giving an address, giving a speech, making a speech, giving a talk, jawing, stumping, going on, making a statement, giving a lecture, addressing an audience, pronouncing, descanting, ranting, teaching, fulminating, arguing … more
preachified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of preachify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. discoursed, spoke, spake, spoken, lectured, orated, talked, declaimed, harangued, expatiated, sermonised, sermonized, spieled, spouted, descanted, pontificated, preached, praught, perorated, expounded, speechified, explained, elaborated, developed, developt, enlarged, argued, commented, expanded, dissertated, lucubrated, commentated, disserted, remarked, treated, voiced, held forth, mouthed off, sounded off, gave an address, given an address, gave a talk, given a talk, gave a speech, given a speech, wrote learnedly, written learnedly, wrote at length, written at length, dilated upon … more
preachifying
  1. present participle of preachify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. discoursing, speaking, lecturing, orating, talking, declaiming, haranguing, expatiating, sermonising, sermonizing, spieling, spouting, descanting, pontificating, preaching, perorating, expounding, speechifying, explaining, elaborating, developing, enlarging, arguing, commenting, expanding, dissertating, lucubrating, commentating, disserting, remarking, treating, voicing, holding forth, mouthing off, sounding off, giving an address, giving a talk, giving a speech, writing learnedly, writing at length, dilating upon, droning on, jawing, getting on a soapbox, reciting, addressing, ranting, moralizing, going on, moralising … more
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