moralizer
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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
The reforming classicists, like the theatre-pleasing Rowe, hit on the two themes which pleased the public, the distressed female and the patriotic moralizer.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
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