What's the difference between breachy and preachy?
Breachy
Definition:
(a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
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Preachy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "There's funny and joking, the two are different … As things progressed, both with adult and junior books, I found that in subtle kinds of ways, without being preachy at all, you could suggest rather interesting things."
(2) This is where you may think I’m getting a little preachy, but I’m genuinely trying to avoid that.
(3) Oliver's playfulness gives him licence to criticise that which in hosts Bill Maher or Piers Morgan comes off as aggressive, preachy or so politically skewed as to be pandering to one cause or another.
(4) Despite the circumstances, this blog is far from preachy – Erin's refreshing approach to vegetarian cooking feels more like a journal, less like an example.
(5) And if there are many respectful quibbles about the nature of Sorkin's preachy drama, there isn't anyone who's saying, it's just not true.
(6) The flip side of Cash's gritty, carved-from-stone persona was a tendency to preachiness, and this came to the fore in a string of long-winded "concept" albums such as Ride This Train (1960), Blood, Sweat And Tears (1963) and True West (1965).
(7) Every story is a manual on how to be a good person, but without ever being preachy.
(8) They can be preachy and holier-than-thou, even as their scandal-hit ministers keep coming.
(9) That preachy, patronising thing – it was necessary at the time, but audiences have become more sophisticated."
(10) That’s part of what Robin Williams did with socially conscious material – he made you laugh, but he also taught you something, and not in a preachy way, either.
(11) Her voice was insistent but not preachy, her analysis detailed but never obscure.
(12) The ad staked out the London Paper's claim as the liberal voice of London, dispensing with the "lecturing and preachy tone of its rival" and reflecting "the racial, sexual, cultural, economic and political diversity" of the capital.
(13) Pride engages the audience not in party politics or preachy agendas, but in much bigger concepts of generosity and compassion.
(14) Far from being preachy and simplistic, Brecht proves to be pungent and complex.
(15) Several months in, she got a nanny and she now works at least three hours a day on the site, which has been compared to Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop , though it's less preachy.