moralize

Example Sentences

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“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

The anecdotes are interesting, but they feel like opportunities to moralize in a way that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2018

Ms. Heller and the screenwriters, Jeff Whitty and the great Nicole Holofcener, resist the impulse to moralize about Lee’s misdeeds or to sand down her rough edges.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2018

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

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott