PREACHY Synonyms

• indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code

• excessively or hypocritically pious

• speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements

• serving to warn

• expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

• of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

• relating to or involving dogma

• characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

• of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics

• conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior

• adhering to ethical and moral principles

• serving to instruct or enlighten or inform

• concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

• the significance of a story or event

• psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect

• narrowly and conventionally moral

• obstinate in your opinions

• marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

• proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles

• denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops

• the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)

• puffed up with vanity

• excessively or hypocritically pious

• excessively or hypocritically pious

• having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity