speechifying
/spˈitʃəfˌaɪɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.
Example Sentences
- ""I thank you," said Lorraine, "for reinforcing my favourite theory, which maintains that a love of talking is the great feature of the present time. Steam is not half so much its characteristic as speechifying.""
- "“To literary readers, the books look cheesy, sexist in a hairy-chest, gold-chain kind of way. His [Robert Heinlein's] stuff hasn’t stood the test of time,” because of characters’ windy speechifying and their frontier optimism."
- "When filibusters started being used in 1837, the lack of such a motion allowed for endless speechifying."