moralizing

Example Sentences

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Mary is a somewhat obscure character, one whom Austen rendered as a less-than-radiant, moralizing afterthought who sang badly.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

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

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Implicit in "wellness" rhetoric is the idea that poor health is strictly a result of personal choices, which are subjected to moralizing judgment.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

Gillian SteelFisher of the Harvard School of Public Health thinks the agency at times adopted a counterproductive, moralizing tone during the pandemic.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 26, 2024

The reports that label my family as corrupt, power- hungry, moralizing dictators?

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth