moralize

“Adolescence” refuses to moralize, but in Jamie, the series finds a cherubic picture of innocence corrupted that can be applied to youth everywhere.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025

I wouldn’t moralize and say that’s bad — I think people create arrangements that work for them.

From The Verge ● May 23, 2022

Review: Plenty of novels moralize about books saving your life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

The anecdotes are interesting, but they feel like opportunities to moralize in a way that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2018

I came here to moralize, not to hear things that make me skip to think of.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

According to him "the language of food is a language that contextualizes, that situates, that moralizes, that challenges the supposedly neutral, non-cultural language of neoliberal economics."

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023

In accordance with one of intuitive eating’s 10 principles — “challenge the food police” — neither woman moralizes about the carbs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

“Anything that moralizes weight or food behaviors or body shape or size has a way of causing harm,” Kneeland says.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2021

Plus, the indie hit never moralizes on same-sex marriage, instead offering a humorous and heartfelt take on two mothers, two teenage kids and a cool biological father.

From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2010

"All who knew Sancho," moralizes the author, "wondered to hear him talk so sensibly, and began to think that offices and places of trust inspire some men with understanding, as they stupefy and confound others."

From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

When behaviors such as eating meat, cigarette smoking, premarital sex or religious schooling become moralized, they elicit powerful moral emotions, institutional action against the behavior, and even censure or condemnation from others.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2021

So, when you have that kind of society, what happens is … issues that used to be things you could compromise on become moralized in their form and therefore uncompromisable.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020

I think that it should be a shades-of-gray thing about slower, faster, and not so moralized; granted that there are these difficult decisions around.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 30, 2019

Insofar as it frames the face, hair easily becomes the focus of a moralized understanding of physical attractiveness, telegraphing sinfulness or virtue, depending.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2015

He thinks about Gerhard, the way he locked up the radio for safekeeping, told Helmuth to leave it alone, the way he moralized to Helmuth.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Some arias are cut; Donna Elvira’s Act 2 “Mi tradì” replaces her Act 1 “Ah, fuggi il traditor,” and there is no moralizing epilogue after the Don goes to hell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

At any rate, moralizing about this tendency won’t change how people really feel.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

Eating the rainbow only becomes moralizing if you treat it like a compliance chart.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

Settle in for some amusing dissections of popular docuseries like “Making a Murderer” and “The Jinx,” as well as the simultaneously moralizing and exploitative “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

In fact, Elisha’s moralizing about her profession made her teasingly start calling him “preacher.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock