verb
- to give a long moral lecture or preach in a tedious way
Usage: often disapproving
Examples
- The teacher began to sermonize about the importance of hard work.
- Stop sermonizing and just tell us what happened.
- He tends to sermonize whenever someone mentions politics.
- The coach sermonized about teamwork for twenty minutes.
- She didn’t want to sermonize, but felt compelled to share her views.
- The politician sermonized about family values during his speech.