moralistic
Example Sentences
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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
New York and New England went on to become competing centers of power and ideology: one pluralistic and globally-minded; the other moralistic, monocultural and, well, puritanical.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2025
They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
In my books, I really try not to be moralistic or didactic.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023
Re-reading these brief moralistic appraisals usually left me disheartened.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
