moralistic
Example Sentences
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He wrote about her in his postcards home, displeasing his moralistic parents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
He invited controversy, however, not by advocating a more amoral, realpolitik foreign policy but by delivering a finger-wagging, highly moralistic lecture about, among other things, how our allies are insufficiently liberal about free expression.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025
Meaning ostentatious or sumptuous still life, pronkstilleven art became all the rage in the Dutch Republic, both as a social documentation of wealth and a kind of moralistic satire.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024
They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Jefferson’s Anglophobia was more virulent in part because it was more theoretical, a moral conclusion that followed naturally from the moralistic categories he carried around in his head.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
