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moralizing

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noun

moralizing

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verb

present participle of moralize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of moralizing
Adjective
Or the moralizing at the end of the show, when the audience, in sympathy with the Phantom, is asked to unmask. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 Unfortunately, the bulk of the requisite moralizing falls mainly to Palmer’s socially conscious Elena, saddled with one too many speeches about making a difference, which puts a damper on the actress’ customary energetic spark. Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralizing
Noun
  • Jim Bakker typically handled the preaching on the show while his wife did the singing.
    Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Jud sees faith as redemptive, having turned to it after causing the death of a fellow boxer in his youth, while Wicks uses shame in his preaching.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Since exiting Dries Van Noten a few years ago, Scallon has been working as an independent consultant and mentor in fashion communications strategy, also lecturing occasionally and sharing his views about creative content on podcasts.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The same woman Don had been lecturing about beer.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The heroine of Mansfield Park, Fanny Price, is the most moralistic young person in her household (and the most ignored).
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
  • What matters is a heavy focus on aesthetic and moralistic perfection.
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • If all that is a little too cerebral, viewers can wait out the pontificating until the next performance comes along.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Curiosity is almost a like a science, didactic and patient.
    Alexandra Bregman, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • However, the pavilion’s visitors rarely complied with this on-screen exhortation, leaving the nearby microphones unused.
    Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, there were few exhortations from the roster of speakers at Kirk’s memorial to reduce the temperature in American politics or show more tolerance for all sides, right, left and center.
    David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Whatever the eventual outcome, most observers are wary of such political interference in traditionally independent bodies.
    Nick Thomas, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Due to their isolated nature, rogue planet observations don’t suffer from interference caused by stellar radiation from host stars.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This overtly political, preachy and unfunny?
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Lawrence isn't preachy in his attempt to make this film an emotional gut-punch.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Moralizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizing. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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