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moralistic

[mawr-uh-lis-tik, mor-] / ˌmɔr əˈlɪs tɪk, ˌmɒr- /












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Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

It’s at the Venn diagram of a Saturday morning cartoon and a moralistic Greek myth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

New York and New England went on to become competing centers of power and ideology: one pluralistic and globally-minded; the other moralistic, monocultural and, well, puritanical.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 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


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