moralistic
Example Sentences
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Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
He invited controversy, however, not by advocating a more amoral, realpolitik foreign policy but by delivering a finger-wagging, highly moralistic lecture about, among other things, how our allies are insufficiently liberal about free expression.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025
They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
She was also extremely rigid, moralistic and self-punishing and was quick to lash out with an acerbic tongue, including at me.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023
Re-reading these brief moralistic appraisals usually left me disheartened.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
