Crossword clues for sermonized
sermonized
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sermonized
Sermonize \Ser"mon*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sermonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sermonizing.]
To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
To inculcate rigid rules. [R.]
--Chesterfield.
Wiktionary
sermonized
vb. (en-past of: sermonize)
Usage examples of "sermonized".
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.
Brilliant economic analysts like the Guardian’s Larry Elliot and complete cranks like Robert Schiller sermonized about the coming “Day of Reckoning”.