moralism
Example Sentences
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Though the outcomes encoded here are colored by midcentury manners, they are surprisingly daring and averse to sedate moralism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Born in Virginia and educated in history and political science at Johns Hopkins University, Wilson became a respected intellectual in his fields with an interest in public service and a profound sense of moralism.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
“She wanted to go beneath moralism to something deeper, to sacrificial love,” said Munroe, now 73 and retired.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2020
And he seems less driven by moralism than bound by legalism.
From Washington Post • May 24, 2019
Clearly Theophilus Cibber's comical, lyrical exploitation in The Harlot's Progress of Hogarth's designs exhibits a more coherent dramatic structure than the tentative, disjointed medley of music and moralism in The Rake's Progress.
From The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) by Anonymous
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
