moralistic
Example Sentences
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He wrote about her in his postcards home, displeasing his moralistic parents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
To achieve some of these much-needed reforms, we must shift the cultural narrative — peeling back the moralistic and judgment-laced rhetoric around poverty, savings and retirement — and acknowledge existing structural barriers to savings.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2025
He invited controversy, however, not by advocating a more amoral, realpolitik foreign policy but by delivering a finger-wagging, highly moralistic lecture about, among other things, how our allies are insufficiently liberal about free expression.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025
They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Re-reading these brief moralistic appraisals usually left me disheartened.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
