speechify
spee chuh fahy
- v make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality
These ministers speechify on every occasion
- IT'S COMMENCEMENT season, and members of the greater White House family are sallying forth onto the nation's college campuses to speechify.
- Candidates speechify in town squares as skeptical grandparents listen intently and clear-eyed children squirm.
- It doesn't whine or speechify or make liberal-minded, quasi-political appeals for relief of its characters' hard lives.