Didactic

More than once during the years that I had lived with him in Baker Street I had observed that a small vanity underlay my companion's quiet and didactic manner.

"The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence."

Do you think children's cartoons should be didactic? Or just for fun?

Mistakes have great didactic value.

The person often talked in a didactic manner, so he was disliked by many of us.

The documentary is purely observational and critics say it avoids being didactic, helping to broaden its appeal.

didactic poetry

Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobility] they have not taught.

The finest didactic poem in any language.