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