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

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

Part of that is due to its overarching Very Special Episode tone and moralizing treatment of various issues.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

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

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth