Example Sentences

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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

He is a great moralizer; and what makes him worth attending to is, that he moralizes on his own feelings and experience.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, William