moralize
verb (used without object)
to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
moralise
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a variation of
moralize.
Example Sentences
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Like all of Butterworth's work, the series doesn't judge or moralise over the characters' duplicitous behaviour.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022
Costa-Gavras, the Greek-French director who is head of The French Cinémathèque, insisted it was not the institution’s role to be judge or jury or to moralise, and accused critics of “out-and-out censorship”.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2017
She thinks that public entities like Makerere University "shouldn't pick and choose when to moralise".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2017
Though warts-and-all, it does not linger or moralise over the blemishes; laudatory, it does not veer towards panegyric, even as it impresses with Mr Leader’s forensic readings.
From Economist ● May 28, 2015
One could moralise here if one had time.
From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
