moralizing
- present participle of moralize.
Example Sentences
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At any rate, moralizing about this tendency won’t change how people really feel.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
Mixing American history with wild fabulation, and parental grief with Buddhist spirituality, the book’s weirdness and originality helped smuggle through its schmaltzy moralizing about selflessness and empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Subsequent moralizing about nuclear weapons, often by the scientists developing them, pales before Roosevelt’s willingness to act on his gut instinct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
“The Expert of Subtle Revisions” isn’t a political book, per se, nor is it moralizing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
