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v. - Speak as if delivering a religious discourse

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  • What the heck, since we're ripping off the good pastor, we might as well continue to sermonise ponderously.
  • Both generals, in the intervals of actual war, sermonise each other, and with much the same spirit that they fight.
  • Surely the "printing error" was using a printer in Exeter and then piously sermonise to the rest of us about the ecological impact of our actions.
  • I hope I am not going to sermonise often in the course of this narrative, but I have always thought that the legislative meddling with the Prize Ring was a grave mistake.
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