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Though John loved her lessons, George hated her didactic tone.didactic = describing someone as inclined too inclined to instruct
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She is fond of telling didactic stories to her grandchildren.didactic = intended to instruct
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Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Ursula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray. (source)didactic = excessively inclined to instruct
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And was told, in didactic tones, that a wife of a man in Roarke's position would have to learn basic social skills. (source)didactic = excessively instructional
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He sat gazing in clammy want at her full red lips and dimpled cheeks as he listened to Major Danby describe in a monotonous, didactic male drone the heavy concentrations of flak awaiting them at Avignon, and he moaned in deep despair suddenly at the thought that he might never see again this lovely woman to whom he had never spoken a word and whom he now loved so pathetically. (source)didactic = intended to instruct
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She'd guessed he was a schoolmaster, he had that rather didactic, fluent way with him. (source)didactic = inclined to instruct
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Moody's grandfather wrote in belabored, redundant, didactic prose. (source)didactic = intended to instruct
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'It was a common punishment in Imperial China,' said O'Brien as didactically as ever. (source)didactically = describing someone excessively inclined to instruct
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Now, as to the sermon-a proud and arrogant man, such as yourself-with an admittedly admirable quality of didacticism about him-was given to doing research in the area of a certain disfiguring and degenerative disease.† (source)
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After reading several books on anthropology, education, and didactics, Alexey Alexandrovitch drew up a plan of education, and engaging the best tutor in Petersburg to superintend it, he set to work, and the subject continually absorbed him.† (source)
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who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. (source)didactic = intended to instruct
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M. Bouc continued somewhat didactically. (source)didactically = in a manner intended to instruct
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All my life I have retained a streak of uncontrolled didacticism.† (source)
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He had in three years of practice already become didactic and incredibly married; he had put on weight and infallibility; and he had learned many new things about which to be dull. (source)didactic = excessively inclined to instruct
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So, Justice Oberwaltzer—solemnly and didactically from his high seat to the jury.† (source)
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She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn't sell. (source)didactic = describing something intended to instruct
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