as in to preach
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Recent Examples of moralize
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.
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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
Men’s decisions, by contrast, are very rarely moralized in the same way.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Haslam’s view, in contrast, is that a moralizing foreign policy is inevitably self-defeating.
—Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
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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
Men’s decisions, by contrast, are very rarely moralized in the same way.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Haslam’s view, in contrast, is that a moralizing foreign policy is inevitably self-defeating.
—Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralize
Verb
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Pages admits that coaches had preached the value of plate discipline to him for awhile.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
9 Apr. 2026
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Any pastor or priest, politician or podcaster, who charges that the modern children of Israel are anything other than the direct descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the beneficiaries of God’s unbreakable covenant with Israel, Hagee said, is not preaching the word of God.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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With me, my wife lectures me more than my children.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Apr. 2026
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The van’s speakers played a high-volume mashup of construction sounds, Jordan Peterson lectures, Marine Corps drills, and mumbling voices.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Priests could not catechize children, bring the sacraments to the sick, or do pastoral work outside the local churchyard.—
George Weigel,
WSJ,
17 Mar. 2022
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“Moralize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralize. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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