teachy
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[edit]teachy (comparative more teachy, superlative most teachy)
- Preachy, didactic, tending toward excessive moraling or personal instruction.
- 2017, Carolyn Hax, It may be time to look at your parents from a new prespective:
- What you describe of your parents is a child’s view of people who, apparently, thought that being a parent meant being strict and teachy all the time.
- 2018, Bob Brown, Lives in the balance: The Hate U Give tackles important topics but offers hollow advice:
- Director George Tillman Jr. gets pulled in different directions, too, juggling teen drama and teachy diatribe.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Variant of tetchy, of uncertain etymology.
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