Moralize
verb
To explain or think about something in a way that gives it moral importance.
People tend to moralize about smoking and drinking habits.
Often appears as...
- moralize about something
- moralize on actions
verb
To make moral judgments or give moral lessons.
The teacher moralized on the importance of honesty.
Often appears as...
- moralize on honesty
- moralize about behavior
verb
To explain or think about something in a way that gives it moral importance.
People tend to moralize about smoking and drinking habits.
Often appears as...
- moralize about something
- moralize on actions
verb
To make moral judgments or give moral lessons.
The teacher moralized on the importance of honesty.
Often appears as...
- moralize on honesty
- moralize about behavior
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Moral Importance
Use 'moralize' to show that you think an issue is not just important, but important in terms of right and wrong.
She would often moralize about the school's disciplinary system.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Moralize' can have a negative feel, suggesting that someone is self-righteous or overly judgmental.
He doesn't just give advice, he tends to moralize.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Viewpoint
When people moralize, they express their own beliefs about what is morally good or bad.
Journalists should report facts, not moralize about events.
Pro Tip 1/3Moral Importance
Use 'moralize' to show that you think an issue is not just important, but important in terms of right and wrong.
She would often moralize about the school's disciplinary system.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Moralize' can have a negative feel, suggesting that someone is self-righteous or overly judgmental.
He doesn't just give advice, he tends to moralize.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Viewpoint
When people moralize, they express their own beliefs about what is morally good or bad.
Journalists should report facts, not moralize about events.
Pro Tip 1/3Moral Importance
Use 'moralize' to show that you think an issue is not just important, but important in terms of right and wrong.
She would often moralize about the school's disciplinary system.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Moralize' can have a negative feel, suggesting that someone is self-righteous or overly judgmental.
He doesn't just give advice, he tends to moralize.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Viewpoint
When people moralize, they express their own beliefs about what is morally good or bad.
Journalists should report facts, not moralize about events.
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Why should you read...
And in believing that his intelligence allows him to transcend moral taboos, Raskolnikov cuts himself off from his own humanity. Yet although the book is deeply concerned with morality, "Crime and Punishment" never comes across as merely moralizing,
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Does money make you...
their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increase. In surveys, we've found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize
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Why should you read...
And in believing that his intelligence allows him to transcend moral taboos, Raskolnikov cuts himself off from his own humanity. Yet although the book is deeply concerned with morality, "Crime and Punishment" never comes across as merely moralizing,
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Does money make you...
their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increase. In surveys, we've found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize
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Quote examples
Jim Crace
English Writer
If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.
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Jacques Barzun
American Educator
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
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Michael Shellenberger
American Author
Celebrities, whether from the world of entertainment or politics, moralize about the need to change individual consumption when they should be moralizing about the need to change collective energy production.
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Malcolm McDowell
English Actor
I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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Clemantine Wamariya
American Author
I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.
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Justin Simien
American Director
Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.
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Horace Walpole
English Author
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
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Jonah Goldberg
American Journalist
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
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A. B. Yehoshua
Israeli Novelist
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
We moralize among ruins.
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Jim Crace
English Writer
If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.
Quote examples
Jacques Barzun
American Educator
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
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Michael Shellenberger
American Author
Celebrities, whether from the world of entertainment or politics, moralize about the need to change individual consumption when they should be moralizing about the need to change collective energy production.
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Malcolm McDowell
English Actor
I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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Clemantine Wamariya
American Author
I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.
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Justin Simien
American Director
Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.
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Horace Walpole
English Author
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
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Jonah Goldberg
American Journalist
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
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A. B. Yehoshua
Israeli Novelist
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
We moralize among ruins.
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