moralizing
Example Sentences
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I am the last person who should be moralizing about convenience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Eating the rainbow only becomes moralizing if you treat it like a compliance chart.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 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
Gillian SteelFisher of the Harvard School of Public Health thinks the agency at times adopted a counterproductive, moralizing tone during the pandemic.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 26, 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
