moralizer
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moralizers
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Over the years, Barry took his capacity as a moralizer seriously, steering his boys away from paid girlfriends and into the worlds of watch collecting and moderate Republican politics.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody who wants to make sure that the culture we’re getting is at least morally aware of how it’s functioning.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
I had even written about it, though I spent less time damning him than decrying the fact that this public moralizer had opened himself to charges of hypocrisy.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2017
Sometimes I think that I sound like a moralizer here, and I’m not.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2016
This was admitted by our moralizer to be very true.
From Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves by George Cruikshank
In New York, “God of Vengeance” was safe when it was downtown, away from the media spotlight that draws mainstream moralizers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2019
Here, he recollects the feeling of reading Greek myths after millennia “of moralizers, preceptors, dramatists, hypocrites and scolds” have had their way in mediating them for our consumption:
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
Scolds, grouches and moralizers have been trying to censor it since Plato, but media violence satisfies a universal appetite, is probably therapeutic and is absolutely awesome.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2014
Brigham lent ear to all itinerant moralizers, faith to none.
From Time Magazine Archive
And so it is to this day and to this hour: the same code of morality exists, and the same set of moralizers are to be met with everywhere.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
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