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
But Europeans cannot simply revert to a moralistic tendency to tell others what to do.
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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
Those on the left must recognize that their moralistic zeal and narrowing of intellectual discourse have turned educational and cultural institutions into engines of alienation, not trust.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Aster isn’t merely mocking them; his real point is that moralistic self-righteousness has become a kind of addiction in America.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2025
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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
Those on the left must recognize that their moralistic zeal and narrowing of intellectual discourse have turned educational and cultural institutions into engines of alienation, not trust.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Aster isn’t merely mocking them; his real point is that moralistic self-righteousness has become a kind of addiction in America.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralistic
didactic
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Such subtlety may not necessarily be what readers—perhaps American readers, in particular—expect from political fiction, which can have a reputation for being didactic and heavy-handed, designed to beat readers over the head, as if anything political were made in the mode of Soviet realism.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
5 Sep. 2025
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Curiosity is almost a like a science, didactic and patient.—
Alexandra Bregman,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Moralistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralistic. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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