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

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

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

The soul moralizes the past in order not to be demoralized by it.

From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

Insofar as it frames the face, hair easily becomes the focus of a moralized understanding of physical attractiveness, telegraphing sinfulness or virtue, depending.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2015

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

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

Eating the rainbow only becomes moralizing if you treat it like a compliance chart.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 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

The reports that label my family as corrupt, power- hungry, moralizing dictators?

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth