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US
/daɪˈdæktɪk/
]
[ UK /dɪdˈæktɪk/ ]
[ UK /dɪdˈæktɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- instructive (especially excessively)
How To Use didactic In A Sentence
- The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
- A compelling storyteller with many voices lyric, operatic and diaristic, Ms. Snyder is often provocative; occasionally didactic or off-key. The Lady of the Wild Things
- But the narrative remains strange and poetic enough for it never to appear formulaic or didactic.
- Colours Beyond Colours" opens with a Jamaican-sounding speaker ostensibly describing the supersensory effects of LSD, and then segueing into a cod-'60s-didactic announcement about the electromagnetic spectrum. PopMatters
- The books written by Richardson and his followers accordingly became known as moral or didactic novels.
- In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage. Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
- We routinely portray them as grim, doctrinaire, religious killjoys who lived in a didactic world of the Saved and the Unregenerate.
- During the yearlong exhibition, didactic programs are offered for schoolchildren.
- I rewrote it several years ago and when I went back to it, it had this really didactic preachy ending and it was just awful.
- Because of their varied backgrounds, these teachers and professionals often use different theoretical and applied didactic and pedagogic practices.