Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized by or displaying a concern with morality.
- adj. Marked by a narrow-minded morality.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inculcating morality; didactic: as, moralistic poets.
Wiktionary
- adj. Characteristic of or relating to a narrow-minded concern of the morals of others; self-righteous
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. narrowly and conventionally moral; -- of people.
- adj. disposed to moralize{2}; -- of people.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. narrowly and conventionally moral
Etymologies
- moral + -istic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One in particular who referred to a 'moralistic' view as being 'blinkered'.”
“Petition: Shame on the so called moralistic people from the Sri Ram sena!”
“Reason article in 1983, to examine how certain types of government regulations come into being, particularly what I would call moralistic regulation.”
“The president-elect of the Christian Coalition announced Tuesday that he was stepping down, saying that the religious group appeared to balk at his proposals to focus on environmental and anti-poverty issues rather than on purely "moralistic" issues such as abortion.”
“Researchers have found evidence of self-protective retaliation, or revenge, and third-party, or "moralistic," punishment in many of nature's diverse niches.”
Michael E. McCullough: The Revenge Instinct and the Bailout Package
“Make all the 'moralistic' complaints you want about how alcohol and drugs are bad for society; you fly in the face of evidence that the cure is indeed worse than the disease.”
“Any other director, saddled with such a self-evidently mediocre script, would simply churn out the kind of moralistic low-budget gangster pieces that thrived on the lower half of double-bills in the 40s.”
“What arose, in its place, is a kind of moralistic, paternalistic, reactionary culture in which undercover police arrest people for being drunk not for fighting or lewdness or driving drunk but simply for being drunk while sitting at the bar.”
“Sounds like the 'moralistic' tactic failed, and badly so.”
"Quite damaging, wide-reaching, nefarious and mean-spirited."
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