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
They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Prudes are going to be prudish, so no point in trying to appease them in a show that’s all about the havoc that’s wrought when human biology is denied by moralistic zealots.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
She was also extremely rigid, moralistic and self-punishing and was quick to lash out with an acerbic tongue, including at me.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
