moralistic
Example Sentences
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He wrote about her in his postcards home, displeasing his moralistic parents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
New York and New England went on to become competing centers of power and ideology: one pluralistic and globally-minded; the other moralistic, monocultural and, well, puritanical.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2025
They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Prudes are going to be prudish, so no point in trying to appease them in a show that’s all about the havoc that’s wrought when human biology is denied by moralistic zealots.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
Jefferson’s Anglophobia was more virulent in part because it was more theoretical, a moral conclusion that followed naturally from the moralistic categories he carried around in his head.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
