moralizing

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And then there are “family values,” a whole range of social issues usually related to sexual behavior and typically expressed in censorious, moralizing terms.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

Subsequent moralizing about nuclear weapons, often by the scientists developing them, pales before Roosevelt’s willingness to act on his gut instinct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

“The Expert of Subtle Revisions” isn’t a political book, per se, nor is it moralizing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

Implicit in "wellness" rhetoric is the idea that poor health is strictly a result of personal choices, which are subjected to moralizing judgment.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

There is another possible precedent: moralizing portraits, the descendants of pictures of St. Jerome, that show their subjects holding or pointing to skulls, much as Revere has the teapot in his hand.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson