preachingly

adv

preachingly

adv

Etymology From preaching + -ly.

1

In a way that preaches.

  • […] the country maiden, who mounts her horse so adroitly, waits on table so sweetly, and talks morality so preachingly?1867, Frances Dana Gage, Elsie Magoon:

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