verb
- to speak in a preachy or moralistic manner; to lecture tediously about moral issues
Usage: informal; often disapproving
Examples
- Stop preachifying about healthy eating and just let me enjoy my pizza.
- The politician began to preachify about family values during his speech.
- She tends to preachify whenever the topic of social media comes up.
- I don’t need you to preachify about my spending habits.
- The teacher would preachify about responsibility instead of just giving detention.
- He started preachifying about the importance of hard work to anyone who would listen.