- present participle of moralize.
moralizing
Example Sentences
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I am the last person who should be moralizing about convenience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
Settle in for some amusing dissections of popular docuseries like “Making a Murderer” and “The Jinx,” as well as the simultaneously moralizing and exploitative “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Implicit in "wellness" rhetoric is the idea that poor health is strictly a result of personal choices, which are subjected to moralizing judgment.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024
President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
