to moralize

Examples

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• With rather less subtlety, the suttee myth continued to cover British power abroad by moralizing every extension and consolidation of the Empire.

  Academic text (1991)

• While nineteenth-century critics valued the stories that moralized domestic topics, twentieth-century critics admire the complexities and subtleties of Hawthorne's work.

  Academic text (2004)

• A man alone without God at the end of his life is trying to moralize his actions and place in it.

  Blog text (24)

• After providing a short narrative of their lives, detailing especially the gruesome nature of their deaths, she moralizes.

  Academic text (2016)

• The tendency to be glib, to "moralize" with panache, does not clarify important issues but throws a sheet over the mind.

  Blog text (18)

• The diocesan paper moralized how a "month's reflection had made Holy Redeemer parishioners anxious to submit to the authority of the Church."

  Academic text (1998)

• In the case of moralizing about health, it is therefore unsurprising that one feature of phenomena that are commonly moralized is that the agent is thought to be morally responsible for them.

  Academic text (2018)

• In short, dance-oriented acts present an amusing yet moralizing story about the need for decorum, amiability, and virtue in women.

  Academic text (2003)

• The artist may have wished to convey a moralizing lesson through this device by suggesting that earthly jewels pale in comparison with the heavenly gems that reward all martyrs.

  Academic text (2001)

• The teacher asked us to interpret the story and moralize about its lessons.

How Moralizing

to denounce

• Formal

115 6.8

to preach

192 3.8

to moralize

1 6.8

to interpret

386 3.3

to note

951 1.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology