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How to pronounce speechify in English?

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Type Words
Type of deliver, present
Derivation speech, speechifier


These ministers speechify on every occasion.

Examples of speechify

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Speechify is an extension that Dugley Labs churned out in record speed yesterday.
From the techcrunch.com
When FDR then and Obama now speechify about not fearing fear, that's not bad rhetoric.
From the dallasnews.com
Did a Comedy Central entertainer need set up a soapbox on the Mall to speechify this point?
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
It's a fine way to end a show, except Rambo then has her get up from the desk and speechify more.
From the timesunion.com
It is wise to be sceptical when politicians speechify on religion.
From the economist.com
Willimon's characters don't talk, they speechify.
From the bloomberg.com
Candidates speechify in town squares as skeptical grandparents listen intently and clear-eyed children squirm.
From the time.com
Throughout this photographic flashback, candidates go on WHO Radio, study corn technology, speechify at the big party dinners.
From the caucuses.desmoinesregister.com
Obviously George Bush can't speechify on the level with O, but then he wasn't reading text off a teleprompter which Obama needed even to address a sixth grade class.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality; "These ministers speechify on every occasion"
  • SpeechWorks was a company founded in the late 1990s in Boston that developed and supported speech-related computer software. The company was purchased in mid-2003 by Peabody, Massachusetts-based Nuance Communications, which was then known as ScanSoft.
  • (speechifying) The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory; The act of speaking, especially at excessive length