teachy

teach +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /tiːt͡ʃi/
• Rhymes: -iːtʃi

teachy (comparative more teachy, superlative most teachy)

1. Tending toward excessive moralization.
   • 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.

• (tending toward excessive moralization): preachy, didactic, moralizing, pious, sanctimonious, sermonizing

• (tending toward excessive moralization): impious, irreverent, tolerant, laissez faire