- present participle of moralize.
moralizing
Example Sentences
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Eating the rainbow only becomes moralizing if you treat it like a compliance chart.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
Mixing American history with wild fabulation, and parental grief with Buddhist spirituality, the book’s weirdness and originality helped smuggle through its schmaltzy moralizing about selflessness and empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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
Subsequent moralizing about nuclear weapons, often by the scientists developing them, pales before Roosevelt’s willingness to act on his gut instinct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
In fact, Elisha’s moralizing about her profession made her teasingly start calling him “preacher.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
