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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
speechify .
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Examples
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He speechifies about how it will be better for their reputations to let their boss know rather than have a scandal erupt and wonders if she is simply unwilling to acknowledge their relationship at all.
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No, I scorn it -- let me tell you I scorn it; but I thought as how this man was staunch and true, and I find he's but a double-faced fellow after all, and speechifies in the House for any side he hopes to make most by.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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She doesn't speechify about these things -- she never speechifies to me, at least.
The Coryston Family A Novel Humphry Ward 1885
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'They talks, they speechifies -- why doan' they fight for 't, and then be friendly? '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'They talks, they speechifies -- why doan' they fight for 't, and then be friendly? '
Evan Harrington — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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'They talks, they speechifies -- why doan' they fight for 't, and then be friendly? '
Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868
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No, I scorn it, let me tell you I scorn it; but I thought as how this man was staunch and true, and I find he's but a double-faced fellow after all, and speechifies in the House for any side he hopes to make most by.
The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie 1788
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At Central Park, Claire speechifies to the heroes as Emma plays and plays.
Television Without Pity DeAnn Welker 2010
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At Central Park, Claire speechifies to the heroes as Emma plays and plays.
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"Dayum straight, sistah!" like when Nico speechifies to a young male businessman, "You know, when a women expresses her concern that an important business matter be dealt with correctly, she's not throwing a fit - she's doing her job."
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