Usually means: Giving moral advice in excess.
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  1. preachy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preachy: Merriam-Webster
  3. preachy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preachy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preachy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preachy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preachy, preachy: Wordnik
  8. preachy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. preachy: Wiktionary
  10. preachy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. preachy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. preachy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. preachy: Dictionary.com
  14. preachy: Rhymezone
  15. preachy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. preachy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. preachy: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See preachier as well.)

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adjective:  Tending toward excessive moralization.

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