to moralize

Examples

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• He had the intellect and ethos of a moralizing purist.

  Blog text (26)

• It is not hard to dip into the social history of the late 19th century to find moralizing elites brutalizing the working class.

  Blog text (8)

• The integration of humans into stage production must not be burdened by the tendency to moralize, nor by any ...

  Academic text (2003)

• "We cannot Americanize America worthily by sentimentalizing and moralizing history," he wrote.

  Academic text (1992)

• By then, however, Wilson doubted that statute alone could accomplish the dual task of moralizing and energizing business.

  Academic text (2013)

• What are the evolution, sorry, of chivalric ethic as a way of moralising the laity according to the works of Hugo the Bazi.

• Clearly, small religious groupings of various sorts—notably among evangelical Protestants and Black Muslims—continue to perform this same important moralizing function in hundreds of poor communities today.

  Academic text (1991)

• In order for these natural impulses or sentiments to grow into genuinely moral phenomena, they must be transformed, indeed "moralized"—and one cannot explain this transformation in terms of these sentiments themselves or of the mechanism of sympathy.

  Academic text (2001)

• Teachers aim to moralize their students by discussing the importance of honesty and integrity.

• The documentary was intended to moralize viewers about the impact of pollution on the environment.

Synonyms

S

to sermonize

vsto moralize

2 8.0

To give advice about right and wrong for a long time in a boring way

aims to improve others' moral character rather than merely sounding preachy

Antonyms

D

to demoralize

• Formal

1 7.5

To make someone lose their sense of right and wrong

How Moralizing

to indoctrinate

31 8.1

to moralize

7.2

to teach

∞ 1.0

to advise

414 2.2

to remind

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology