Usually means: Advocating or promoting in sermonizing manner.
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  1. preachingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. preachingly: Collins English Dictionary
  3. preachingly: Wiktionary
  4. preachingly: Dictionary.com
  5. preachingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. preachingly: Idioms

(Note: See preach as well.)

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▸ adverb:  In a way that preaches.

Similar:
preachily, exhortatively, sermonically, evangelistically, crusadingly, expostulatively, prophetically, reprovingly, preposterously, pushfully, more...

Opposite:
non-preachy, unpreachy, non-dogmatic

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Similar:
preachily, exhortatively, sermonically, evangelistically, crusadingly, expostulatively, prophetically, reprovingly, preposterously, pushfully, more...

Opposite:
non-preachy, unpreachy, non-dogmatic



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