moralizer
Americannoun
plural
moralizersExample 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
A cormorant is perched on the monument, 311 defiling it, as if to remind some moralizer like Hamlet, of "the base uses" to which things sacred may be turned.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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