moralize

Make a commitment not to moralize food, or the food anyone is eating.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

Think carefully about what language you use; for example, “good” and “bad” moralize food.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021

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

And thus,” moralizes our author, “are many deceived of the substance, whiles they are much busied about the shadowes.”

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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

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

Instead of issues being "de-moralized," they get moralized in different ways.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2018

I’ll say that I was heartened and, moralized isn’t a word, is it?

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2017

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

The petitioners also took issue with Mr. Barnett’s use of the word “didacticism” to describe the heavy-handed moralizing so common in children’s books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

“The Expert of Subtle Revisions” isn’t a political book, per se, nor is it moralizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025

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

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock