moralize

“Adolescence” refuses to moralize, but in Jamie, the series finds a cherubic picture of innocence corrupted that can be applied to youth everywhere.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025

I wouldn’t moralize and say that’s bad — I think people create arrangements that work for them.

From The Verge ● May 23, 2022

Review: Plenty of novels moralize about books saving your life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

Douthat does not moralize about this situation or place the blame solely on the sexual revolution.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020

I came here to moralize, not to hear things that make me skip to think of.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

According to him "the language of food is a language that contextualizes, that situates, that moralizes, that challenges the supposedly neutral, non-cultural language of neoliberal economics."

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023

In accordance with one of intuitive eating’s 10 principles — “challenge the food police” — neither woman moralizes about the carbs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

“Anything that moralizes weight or food behaviors or body shape or size has a way of causing harm,” Kneeland says.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2021

Plus, the indie hit never moralizes on same-sex marriage, instead offering a humorous and heartfelt take on two mothers, two teenage kids and a cool biological father.

From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2010

Though only one poem in the Muallaqat, that by Zuhayr, really moralizes, the later Arabic poets always loved to give vent to reflections, proverbs, words of wisdom.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

It’s about eating more and in a culture that’s long moralized thinness and praised restriction, that’s its own kind of rebellion.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025

When behaviors such as eating meat, cigarette smoking, premarital sex or religious schooling become moralized, they elicit powerful moral emotions, institutional action against the behavior, and even censure or condemnation from others.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2021

I think that it should be a shades-of-gray thing about slower, faster, and not so moralized; granted that there are these difficult decisions around.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 30, 2019

I’ll say that I was heartened and, moralized isn’t a word, is it?

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2017

He thinks about Gerhard, the way he locked up the radio for safekeeping, told Helmuth to leave it alone, the way he moralized to Helmuth.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

I am the last person who should be moralizing about convenience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Charge sheets grew into lengthy, moralizing denunciations that castigated officials for failing to stay committed to the party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025

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