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US
/ˈmɔɹəˌɫaɪzɪŋ/
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NOUN
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indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code
his constant moralizing drove me mad
How To Use moralizing In A Sentence
- While I am sharply critical of American unilateralism and realpolitik masquerading as the defence of liberty, at times I find our own moralizing irritating.
- The phrase "inspired by a true story" affixes itself to novels like a warning label: Beware sententious moralizing. Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665)
- Rumours of his omniscience were demoralizing.
- Practically all moralizing is absent from Romantic drama.
- We were marched back onto the train and laughed at - quite demoralising, really.
- The nights were bitterly cold, the days little warmer, the lack of light demoralizing. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- However, the inevitable parental reconciliation at the finale is a piece of moralising too far.
- What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system.
- The aide admitted that the news of the killing was withheld to avoid demoralising the fighters.
- And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans