moralize
Example Sentences
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If Brasher sometimes tends to moralize when he writes about birds, it isn’t Aesopian.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2023
I wouldn’t moralize and say that’s bad — I think people create arrangements that work for them.
From The Verge • May 23, 2022
Right, you try to not moralize, just saying, "Hey, here's what you're dealing with. The choice is up to you."
From Salon • Aug. 3, 2021
Ms. Heller and the screenwriters, Jeff Whitty and the great Nicole Holofcener, resist the impulse to moralize about Lee’s misdeeds or to sand down her rough edges.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2018
I came here to moralize, not to hear things that make me skip to think of.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.