Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who moralizes or makes moral reflections; an instructor in morals.
- noun One who has a habit of finding an allegory or hidden meaning in passages.
- noun Also spelled
moraliser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who moralizes.
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- noun One who
moralizes .
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Examples
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And to say he's a moralizer is a kind of vague, lazy charge.
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The philosopher mechanically shrugged his shoulders, as he always did when another man moralized, -- especially if the moralizer were a priest; but there was no irony in his smile, as he answered thoughtfully, --
My Novel — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The philosopher mechanically shrugged his shoulders, as he always did when another man moralized, -- especially if the moralizer were a priest; but there was no irony in his smile, as he answered thoughtfully, --
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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It doesn't quite accord with the image of the moralizer we've known from Atonement and Saturday, but for precisely this reason it is a better book than its three immediate predecessors, which includes the short interludish novel, On Chesil Beach (2007).
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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It doesn't quite accord with the image of the moralizer we've known from Atonement and Saturday, but for precisely this reason it is a better book than its three immediate predecessors, which includes the short interludish novel, On Chesil Beach (2007).
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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It doesn't quite accord with the image of the moralizer we've known from Atonement and Saturday, but for precisely this reason it is a better book than its three immediate predecessors, which includes the short interludish novel, On Chesil Beach (2007).
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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As such, he was really more of a sentimentalist and a moralizer than an important analyst of history and politics.
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The alternative is to reproduce injustice and spread the seductive syndrome of the "happy victimizer" and its opposite twin, the "unhappy moralizer."
Ronald B. Robinson: Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24 2010
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Woodrow Wilson, that incessant moralizer, said paying taxes is a "glorious privilege."
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I have my own issues with Lieberman, a flip-flopping moralizer whose commitment to real reform is questionable.
Brian Keane: Kerry-Lieberman: Not Perfect, But "We Can't Wait for Perfect" 2010
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