as in moralizing
marked by or given to preaching moral values
parental opinion was divided on the school's moralistic curriculum
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Recent Examples of moralistic
His disdain for the brothers’ moralistic literary choices was clear.
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Time, 23 July 2025
Intervention by authorities has Indian moviegoers fuming, who accuse the censors of making moralistic changes while adopting a double standard for Bollywood films, which are often laced with innuendos, misogyny and sensual scenes.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 16 July 2025
But Europeans cannot simply revert to a moralistic tendency to tell others what to do.
—Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
The same moralistic spirit that once defined Minnesota’s politics now fuels passionate polarization.
—David Schultz, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
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Time, 23 July 2025
Intervention by authorities has Indian moviegoers fuming, who accuse the censors of making moralistic changes while adopting a double standard for Bollywood films, which are often laced with innuendos, misogyny and sensual scenes.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 16 July 2025
But Europeans cannot simply revert to a moralistic tendency to tell others what to do.
—Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
The same moralistic spirit that once defined Minnesota’s politics now fuels passionate polarization.
—David Schultz, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralistic
didactic
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But having the freedom to let the music breathe and develop allows the score to feel emotionally expressive, and never didactic.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
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Much of Iran’s clandestine cinema, including some of Panahi’s earlier works, is didactic, focused on valorizing the victims of the regime’s injustices.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Moralistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralistic. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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