moralistic
adjective
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didactic, homiletic (or homiletical), moralizing, preachy, sententious, sermonic
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People donât realize that because his public pronouncements sounded very moralistic. — Los Angeles Times, "Look out Notre Dame, the Falwells have big plans for Liberty football," 27 Aug. 2019 Consider common appeals to allyship and altruism; such locutions convey a sort of optional quality, a moralistic tone, and unreliable trendiness. — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, "One for All," 26 Aug. 2019 This is a story that supplants a fictional moralistic binary with a more realistic take on the elasticity of identity. — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, "Wonât You Be My Neighbor: An Anti-Hate Pop Culture Syllabus," 9 Aug. 2019 Above all, stop comparing the gathering mess of the 2020 presidential campaign season to television, particularly to (insert moralistic scowl here) reality TV. — Washington Post, "Can we get past the idea that politics is a reality show? Not if CNN has anything to do with it.," 2 Aug. 2019 The letter used moralistic language and provided no specific evidence for its assertions. — The Economist, "âAcademic mobbingâ undermines open inquiry and destroys the soul of universities," 23 July 2019 Senator Sanders, for example, desires to radically increase the tax on inheritances for moralistic reasons. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, "The Democrats Are the Socialist Party Again," 20 June 2019 One neednât be blindly moralistic about all of this. — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, "Why Wonât American Politicians Talk about Chinese Authoritarianism?," 26 June 2019 Too many of his stories are paternalistic, moralistic paeans to white heteronormativity. — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, "Did Nicholas Sparks Kill The Notebook? Or, Was It Always Doomed?," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'moralistic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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