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US
/ˈmɔɹəˌɫaɪz/
]
VERB
- improve the morals of
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speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
This man always sermonizes -
interpret the moral meaning of
moralize a story
How To Use moralize In A Sentence
- This was further compounded by the fact that Victorian children moved up to twenty corves per day, whilst being sick, malnourished and demoralised in many cases.
- A comparatively low level of casualties can demoralize both individual military units and the entire army.
- He also gets to brag to his base about that victory, even as he demoralizes conservative voters. The Real GOP Debt Choice
- Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.
- Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Adolf Hitler
- Darfur is a place where "evil lives", so they have completely "moralized" the conflict and presented it as a struggle against evil. RaceWire
- That is what happens when you poison your growth through letting others diminish, marginalize and demoralize you from reaching your potential.
- Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
- ‘People are very demoralized and unhappy,’ a former administration official said.
- Many opponents of the war were demoralised.
