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
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
But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to seek a fresh start in these circumstances, and don’t let any two-bit moralizer tell you otherwise.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2015
He is no moralizer, but he sees things clearly and in just proportion and he knows how to take advantage of his own position as well as of the weakness of 214his adversaries.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.
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
Their membership ranks are swelled by new-style indifferents, driven thence by well-meaning moralizers, who are always railing at the indifferents for not taking part in politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
So is her husband, the prince of moralizers, the man who first taught me how contemptible the human race may become.
From Alone by Douglas, Norman
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