MORALISTIC


Meaning of MORALISTIC in English

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.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.