- present participle of moralize.
moralizing
Example Sentences
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I am the last person who should be moralizing about convenience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Eating the rainbow only becomes moralizing if you treat it like a compliance chart.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
And then there are “family values,” a whole range of social issues usually related to sexual behavior and typically expressed in censorious, moralizing terms.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
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
