moralizing
Example Sentences
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Mary is a somewhat obscure character, one whom Austen rendered as a less-than-radiant, moralizing afterthought who sang badly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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
Mixing American history with wild fabulation, and parental grief with Buddhist spirituality, the book’s weirdness and originality helped smuggle through its schmaltzy moralizing about selflessness and empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
