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
I am no moralizer; but the gay and rapid river and the dark and silent lake were, of a verity, no bad emblems of us two.
From Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest by Theodore Watts
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
Therefore, the more home-like grew the moralizers, the more Sprigg-like grew the subject.
From The Red Moccasins A Story by Morrison Heady
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