How to Use moralize in a Sentence

moralize

verb

• My job here is not moralizing, just to assess the numbers.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2020
• And in retrospect, this refusal to moralize makes its comics sort of heroic.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
• The left, by comparison, tended to moralize, and spoke in the language of justice instead of growth.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 July 2016
• The Flying Parson faded from hero to scold, using his new celebrity to moralize against low necklines and drink.
  — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• The chorus women, who have come to the camp to ogle the glamorous military men and to moralize the unfolding tale, are dressed like bridesmaids at a suburban wedding.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Now, perhaps, is not the time for moralizing lectures to our allies about the virtues of American democracy.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• The book doesn’t lecture, moralize or lavishly mourn but rather considers three lives and the meaningful points in those lives where promise stalls, improves or goes south.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• That dismissal also jibes with the music geek’s tendency to moralize suffering: a belief that pleasure needs to be both earned and accounted for.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
• There will be calls to moralize over people’s imagination.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• Brenda Frese refuses to moralize about the barrage of transfers that have reshaped college basketball in recent years.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
• Yet fatness was also moralized, associated with the sin of gluttony.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
• Parents who didn’t use drugs or alcohol as teens should be honest too, explaining their reasons without moralizing.
  — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2017
• This suggests to me that our society has, in a way, moralized infant feeding choices, rather than normalizing breastfeeding.
  — Reyhan Harmanci, The Cut, 23 May 2018
• Rather than moralizing over Onira Tech’s invention, Reverie’s pilot simply uses it as a framing device, like a wormhole that takes Kint to new mindscapes instead of alien planets.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 30 May 2018
• His painting in turn greatly influenced the artist William Morris, a key figure in the aesthetic movement, which reveled in beauty and art for art's sake, rather than realistic scenes of life or moralizing allegories.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 8 May 2023
• While the intentions might be good, moralizing worry distracts from the real goal by turning people’s attention inward to their own emotional states, rather than outward onto the problem.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2017
• Endless ink has been spilled moralizing the withdrawal into these digital cocoons.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 July 2018
• There’s no such danger in the movie, which offers some of the stories’ more gruesome elements but, by framing them skillfully, moralizes their fabrications by undergirding them with (fictitious) facts.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• After offering example after example showing the harmful effects of smartphones on young people, Ms. Twenge is still careful not to moralize.
  — Christine Rosen, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
• The more dynamic relationship is between Williams’ moralizing Serena and Blue’s Bess.
  — Crystal Paul, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• Well, exactly — Jerry was the opposite of Geraldo’s sniveling, moralizing voyeur hypocrisy.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
• Their action has implications beyond Columbia’s campus, and indeed beyond any campus in the U.S. Higher education occupies a starring role in this country’s moralizing to the poor.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 1 May 2018
• In depicting these situations, Krauss is notably dispassionate, reticent to moralize about the men who force women into positions of submission.
  — Timothy Aubry, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2020
• Whatever Hayward decides, his selection needn’t be moralized.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 23 June 2017
• Some have previously complained that former-President Obama offered little decisive action and moralized too much.
  — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 21 May 2017
• For many black Republicans, the party’s convention has veered unexpectedly and unhappily toward lecturing and moralizing on issues of race, an off-putting posture at a time when Mr. Trump is staggeringly unpopular with minority voters.
  — Patrick Healy, Yamiche Alcindor and Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 19 July 2016
• International conservation and animal welfare organizations are using the outbreak to moralize about the traditional Chinese practice of eating a wider range of animal species than people of European heritage consider acceptable.
  — Robert Dingwall, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024