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Synonyms for moralize

to indulge in moral reflection, usually pompously

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Synonyms for moralize

interpret the moral meaning of

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speak as if delivering a sermon

improve the morals of

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It's all a long way from the action packed, high-camp cartoon fights of the television original and the simple moralising of good and evil.
"I challenge anyone to find anything I've said in the last 10 years that's self-righteous or moralising.'
The more I thought about it, the more I objected to his unhinged moralising and it left me feeling annoyed.
'The time for silly moralising about whether sex work is right or not is long past,' said TAC spokesman Nathan Geffen.
Mr Botto sits in his comfortable chair moralising over a women's decision.
Is it possible we can put the moralising to one side for a moment and allow a man who has paid his dues to society to get on with his life?
A few generations later, I wasn't nearly pretty enough, so I think I've been very lucky" Dame Esther Rantzen on the timing of her TV career "Sadly, Steve Coogan has morphed in recent years from media-loving, hard-partying comic genius into a fake-haloclad moralising newspaperloathing teetotal bore" TV's Piers Morgan on the Alan Partridge creator "I love company and a G&T...
Laing getting her leg over the taxpayer is acceptable, while Truss getting her leg over another Con is the cue for high-minded moralising. I don't mind Tories sleeping with each other.
People are put off by high-minded moralising from people who may not have experienced much ordinary life.
William Gladstone, when not moralising, used to walk up to Piccadilly Circus to pick up young women of the street and take them back to No.10, "to save them from their sinful ways".
This time, however, the moralising is laid on thick, and the religious subtext screams louder than John Debney's orchestral score, extolling the virtues of a united and loving family with an unwavering faith in the Lord.
Now a bunch of moralising commentators are banging on as if his acquittal means the end of civilisation as we know it.
Moralising sermons delivered by fingerwagging politicians unaware of individual circumstances do harm instead of good.