Thesaurus results for MORALIZE

moralize

verb

Definition of moralize

as in to preach

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Recent Examples of moralize Dissecting private reproductive choices through a collective lens, as the authors do, comes with a high risk of moralizing fertility. — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025 People who moralize intrinsic motivation often expect it from everyone else. — Mijeong Kwon, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025 The good guy, the bad guy, the place to sit and reside, to feel right or wrong or righteous or moralized and she's left us quite naked with an incredibly complex detailed topic. — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025 One Battle After Another is not sappy or moralizing in that sentiment. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for moralize

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That was the day everything Norvell had preached to his players about hard work, sacrifice and winning suddenly rang hollow.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Feast celebrating the birth of the Jewish prophet who preached the imminence of God’s Final Judgment and baptized those who repented in self-preparation for it.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of preach

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This is how a senior diplomat can lecture British bureaucrats about North Korea’s victimhood one day and then flee North Korea with his entire family a few weeks later.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
At a time when everyone is asking where men fit in, this film doesn’t lecture.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026