moralizer
noun
a person who is prone to moralizing.
moralizers
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pluralof moralizer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Moral teachers, the greatest, not explicit moralizers, 155.
From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Hiram Corson
