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moralistic

[mawr-uh-lis-tik, mor-] / ˌmɔr əˈlɪs tɪk, ˌmɒr- /












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Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 30, 2025

It’s at the Venn diagram of a Saturday morning cartoon and a moralistic Greek myth.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2025

They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2024

Not only is this a deeply moralistic view, but also it's an unscientific one.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2023

The same moralistic dichotomy that Jefferson saw inside the United States between discernible heroes and villains, he also projected into the international arena.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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