speechifying

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of speechify

2. 2

   The art of making speeches

   The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory.

3. 3

   The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.

   • "I thank you," said Lorraine, "for reinforcing my favourite theory, which maintains that a love of talking is the great feature of the present time. Steam is not half so much its characteristic as speechifying."
   • “To literary readers, the books look cheesy, sexist in a hairy-chest, gold-chain kind of way. His [Robert Heinlein's] stuff hasn’t stood the test of time,” because of characters’ windy speechifying and their frontier optimism.

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