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moralize | American Dictionary

moralize
verb[ I ]
 disapprovingus/ˈmɔr·əˌlɑɪz, ˈmɑr-/
to make judgments about right and wrong, esp. in a way that does not consider other people’s ideas or opinions:
A good teacher manages to educate without moralizing.

Examples of moralize

moralize
The tenor of these wedding songs could be either grave and moralizing or mischievous, even lewd.
Such clumsy moralizing failed to convince his critics, however.
What changed was his view of the means to moralize modern states.
Nevertheless, ethical theorists who are uninterested in specific socio-historical conditions tend to overlook the unavoidable partiality of the moralizing party.
He was not a sufficiently contented individual in his own personal life5 0 to feel able to moralize too much about the characters of others.
But if the answers themselves are moralized, so too, of course, are the questions.
Practically, it seems clear that green virtues should moralize such behavior as reproduction and consumption.
The piece does not attempt to moralize, but counterpoints joy and celebration with grief and mourning.
Etiquette manuals repeatedly emphasize the mistake of wearing colorful clothing for riding, often with moralizing anecdotes.
Articulating the culturally current association between women and horses, opponents of fashionable dress attempted through moralizing mockery to expose its fatuous character and make clear their own superior sensibilities.
Of course, many different authorities - theological, medical, political, military - in different historical periods and different social settings have advised, instructed, warned, and moralized concerning such procedures for shaping a life.
In common with reports by social workers written in this period, the investigations were characterized by unproven allegations, moralizing assumptions, and the reduction of deviant behaviour to biological determinants.
Occasionally, they used progressive language to present their policies as modern, but they often clung to the traditional prison regime based on strict punishment, military discipline, and moralizing lectures.
Scherzinger provides a truly thoughtful and challenging model for theorizing music analysis and gender, vastly more powerful than the moralizing trends in music gender studies he scrupulously critiques.
It was realized that children did not only warrant disciplinary and moralizing literature, but also childlike books to foster their imagination.
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