moralizing
Example Sentences
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Moralizing has often been used as a way to exclude, to scold and to discipline, “wrongly imposing our ‘personal’ choices and ways of seeing onto others.”
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021
Moralizing and wish fulfillment aside, history teaches that cinema and art need not be synonyms.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2019
New York Times, Stop Moralizing About Single Mothers No, their households are not always sad and falling apart.
From Slate • Jul. 16, 2012
Moralizing, I observed, then, that "all that glitters is not gold."
From Roughing It, Part 3. by Twain, Mark
Moralizing has a bad name; but than good moralizing there is, when one has reached a certain age perhaps, no better reading.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
