All soapbox synonyms
soap·box
S s noun soapbox
- lecture — a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
- address — Your address is the number of the house, flat, or apartment and the name of the street and the town where you live or work.
- objectives — Plural form of objective.
- oration — a formal public speech, especially one delivered on a special occasion, as on an anniversary, at a funeral, or at academic exercises.
- chalk talk — an informal lecture with pertinent points, explanatory diagrams, etc, shown on a blackboard
verb soapbox
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- declaim — If you declaim, you speak dramatically, as if you were acting in a theatre.
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- hold forth — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- blow one's top — to lose one's temper
- mouthed — having a mouth of a specified kind (often used in combination): a small-mouthed man.
- constate — to affirm
- apostrophize — to address an apostrophe to
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.