How to Use moralize in a Sentence

moralize

verb
  • Men’s decisions, by contrast, are very rarely moralized in the same way.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • And in retrospect, this refusal to moralize makes its comics sort of heroic.
    — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In a league full of players and coaches who love to moralize, that distinction matters.
    — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But to liberate parents from shame like this is every bit as moralizing an act as scolding them would be.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The states most eager to moralize about fairness are learning that wealth has a tendency to seek fair treatment of its own.
    — Larry Clifton, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The left, by comparison, tended to moralize, and spoke in the language of justice instead of growth.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 July 2016
  • And in its rule-making, the EU should simplify and streamline, rather than moralize and nitpick.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The Flying Parson faded from hero to scold, using his new celebrity to moralize against low necklines and drink.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, there remains the matter of moralizing.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Ironically, the play does come with a preachy streak, playing to its crowd with pat-yourself-on-the-back monologues, moralizing with a pause for applause.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Parents who didn’t use drugs or alcohol as teens should be honest too, explaining their reasons without moralizing.
    — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Now, perhaps, is not the time for moralizing lectures to our allies about the virtues of American democracy.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Yet fatness was also moralized, associated with the sin of gluttony.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The book doesn’t lecture, moralize or lavishly mourn but rather considers three lives and the meaningful points in those lives where promise stalls, improves or goes south.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Haslam’s view, in contrast, is that a moralizing foreign policy is inevitably self-defeating.
    — Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
  • Endless ink has been spilled moralizing the withdrawal into these digital cocoons.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 July 2018
  • The chorus women, who have come to the camp to ogle the glamorous military men and to moralize the unfolding tale, are dressed like bridesmaids at a suburban wedding.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Politics moralize and set certain beliefs apart as inviolable, while humor thrives in the gray areas between the sacred and the profane.
    — Robert Lynch, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This suggests to me that our society has, in a way, moralized infant feeding choices, rather than normalizing breastfeeding.
    — Reyhan Harmanci, The Cut, 23 May 2018
  • Brenda Frese refuses to moralize about the barrage of transfers that have reshaped college basketball in recent years.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Internet should not be a sanitized corporate theme park where everything is monetized and moralized.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Expect setbacks; return to the routine without moralizing mistakes.
    — Novena Riojas, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Whatever Hayward decides, his selection needn’t be moralized.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 23 June 2017
  • Dissecting private reproductive choices through a collective lens, as the authors do, comes with a high risk of moralizing fertility.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • While the intentions might be good, moralizing worry distracts from the real goal by turning people’s attention inward to their own emotional states, rather than outward onto the problem.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Realpolitik is one thing; needlessly insulting an ally and condemning it in perversely moralizing terms is another.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 21 Feb. 2025
  • In recent years, the right — especially the religious right — has latched with a newfound intensity onto gender norms, and used people’s clothing choices to moralize about society.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Well, exactly — Jerry was the opposite of Geraldo’s sniveling, moralizing voyeur hypocrisy.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no such danger in the movie, which offers some of the stories’ more gruesome elements but, by framing them skillfully, moralizes their fabrications by undergirding them with (fictitious) facts.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Similarly, gays in horror movies could just go camping with their friends — and worry about psycho killers who were just good old-fashioned horror-movie maniacs, instead of moralizing sin hunters or trans people made terrifying.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 June 2024

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