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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
moralistic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a moralistic, middle-class newspaper
▪ Our teachers were dull, uninspiring, and moralistic.
▪ We need practical approaches to preventing teen pregnancies, not moralistic ones.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brown, of course, is anything but moralistic.
▪ He handed Eleanor's book to a moralistic old bag he had once done a writing workshop with.
▪ In the eighteenth century criticism was less moralistic than utilitarian and economic.
▪ It was a very moralistic, religious-based, money-making pyramid.
▪ Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic, precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required.
▪ Some readers may give them a moralistic spin, arguing that they prove something essential about gay men or homosexuality or promiscuity.
▪ They are stepping over the invisible, moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition.
▪ Willem Dafoe has played both sides of the moralistic coin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
moralistic

moralistic \moralistic\ adj.

  1. narrowly and conventionally moral; -- of people.

  2. disposed to moralize[2]; -- of people.

    Syn: moralizing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moralistic

1845; from moralist + -ic. Related: Moralistically.

Wiktionary
moralistic

a. Characteristic of or relating to a narrow-minded concern of the morals of others; self-righteous

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moralistic

adj. narrowly and conventionally moral

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Usage examples of "moralistic".

The apologetic and moralistic train of thought is alone developed with systematic clearness.

Not without getting trite, or cute, or moralistic - or falling into any number of the many pitfalls I foresaw with regard to this material.

He glanced at my tousled hair and the smeared fucus and creta of my face, his expression compounded of inquiry, concern and a trace of moralistic disapproval.

Hugo Splanchnick, a dedicated and moralistic rhinologist working out of a suite of dust-free upper rooms in Sherman Oaks.

One without any weak links, free of the moralistic waste that encumbers and slows the appropriate development of a truly advanced society.

It is probable that the religious persecutions and moralistic intolerances practiced on dissenters by the colonists of New England were more severe than any from which they had fled.

Liberals denounce Christian conservatives for being moralistic, for imposing their morality on others, for not separating morality from politics, and for bringing religious zeal to public lifeand then work themselves into a frothing frenzy of righteous, moralistic zeal over their own moral excellence for being so rational, calm, and detached.

The various schemata purportedly demonstrating that outside forces have caused the Democrats' foreign policy debacles are long and moralistic, full of contradictory little bons mots, but lack what we used to call a point.

This is why moralistic preaching is such a failure: it breeds only cunning hypocrites--people sermonized into shame, guilt, or fear, who thereupon force themselves to behave as if they actually loved others, so that their "virtues" are often more destructive, and arouse more resentment, than their "vices.

The Calamarain, back when they’d been the Coulalakritous, had been there at the beginning of his escapades with 0, and they had never forgiven him for his own small part in that unfortunate episode, so it was only fitting (in a thuddingly hamhanded and moralistic kind of way) that they be here at the end…if the end this be.