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

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

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

As a model and mother of three married to model Lucky Blue Smith, she has become the embodiment of luxury fashion meeting its lifestyle counterpart, with only a glint of moralizing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik