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US
/ˈspitʃəˌfaɪ/
]
VERB
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make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality
These ministers speechify on every occasion
How To Use speechify In A Sentence
- We may conclude that her ulterior motive in appearing so often on TV and her speechifying tours with her stupidities is to court favor, most recently, with Joe Lieberman. Think Progress » Coulter Derides Call For New Iraq Strategy, Endorses Lieberman Approach
- For the second night in a row, there is little speechifying and much music.
- She doesn't speechify about these things -- she never speechifies to me, at least. The Coryston Family A Novel
- In the first act, every character embodies a political position, and all but Belle herself, who's too busy scrubbing floors and nursing her baby, spend a lot of time speechifying.
- Although the 10 songs on The Woods include some of Sleater-Kinney's least subtle speechifying - the factiousness of ‘Entertain’ being a case in point - their playing has never been more inspired, or better captured.
- Hey, I know it's Friday, and all anybody wants to do is get together with friends at the Sizzler, so I'll knock off the speechifying.
- After the applause had died down, Hector prepared to speechify.
- The story suffocates under endless speechifying and analysis in which each point is flogged to death.
- The Assistant Commissioner found himself wondering if politicians habitually thought in clichés, as well as speechifying in them. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
- It was powerful, compelling, emotional, and in sharp contrast to the prepackaged speechifying we are so accustomed to hearing from politicians.