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Recent Examples of moralistic 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 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 See All Example Sentences for moralistic
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didactic
Adjective
  • Adapted from his own novel Cabal, Barker brings so much creativity and personality to this story that could easily have become a more didactic sermon about otherness.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • This simple didactic framework was picked up by Tetlock and used to characterize different approaches that expert forecasters took to the task of prediction.
    Marcus Weldon, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Sep. 2025

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