moralize
moralise BrE

There are some who try to moralize about my activities, to act as if what I do is right or wrong.

Instead, it wishes the government and the media to moralize for them.

There is no purpose in moralizing too much about distant events.

It's really a tone of moralizing that has no place anywhere.

"It is needless to moralize on what has happened," he said.

As more women wrote the genre, it became increasingly moralized.

How can you moralize about the issue when children are hungry, cold and abused?

Others moralize the faithful in light of her virtuous life.

Moralizing commentary would only turn off the young people I'm trying to reach."

As always, the President, once done with moralizing about man's estate, descended to practical politics.

I came here to moralize, not to hear things that make me skip to think of."

But the past is passed; why moralize upon it?

He has little taste for politics and even less for moralizing.

"I can't stand to be moralized at," his father said.

"Ethicist" may also mean a person with a tendency to moralize.

They moralize that everything in government should be based on the consideration of economics and efficiency.

Up to now, all revolutions have been made by moralizing dilettantes.

I am not in the mood for moralizing from the editorial page pulpit.

Should one per- haps try to realize this aim by moralizing?

I beg you to take note that I am not moralizing.

On the evidence here, the didactic, moralizing disposition of much current work by young artists is not news.

But we have moralized it thoroughly without ever really taking it to heart.

She did not mean to moralize and no one loved a holiday better than her, but perpetual holidays!

Much like smoking, food is also highly moralized in the United States.

Where is the decision to moralise the salaries of banking executives?

The ordinance of 8 March 1777 tried to moralise the hunt for the runaway slaves.

Without a clear programme of government reforms to promote, he tended to moralise or equivocate.

My post was directed to all who moralise about the Greeks (and this one is not strictly personal to you as well)

"Don't you moralise," said Hurstwood to Carrie gently, "until you see what becomes of the money."

I hadn't put any money into Focus Wales... it's easy for me to moralise about support and backbone, especially in these difficult economic times we're all enduring.

The reader of this record knows more of Matthew than in two hundred years any one is likely to know of us who moralise over Matthew!

Perhaps because it is supposed to uphold public service broadcasting, the BBC finds it hard to resist the temptation to moralise on programmes of this kind.

He is also critical of American arrogance and what he describes as an "I, me, my society," but insists he is not trying to lecture or moralise through his music.

Within view was the peaceful river and the ferry-boat, to moralise to all the inmates saying: Young or old, passionate or tranquil, chafing or content, you, thus runs the current always.

So, before you feel free to moralise about us Greeks, I suggest that you sell all your properties and donate the proccedings to a fund that will repay your debts.

Of course this has been very irritating to management, who vigorously rebut our charges - and we're aware that if we're to moralise in this way we have to keep our own house in order.

"When I referred to those who moralise on the evils of slavery without lifting a finger to change things, I was not applying the accusation to your-self---and l am sorry if you thought that.

For the most depressing thing about Saif's squalid story is what it reveals about everyday corruption in a country that loves to moralise its way through the world, dispensing praise and censure to all and sundry.

"Do you not know," said she, with some surprise, "our motto--- the Vernon motto, where, Like the solemn vice iniquity, We moralise two meanings in one word And do you not know our cognisance, the pipes?"

Quisby and Jopp, a pair of "swells", arrive to see the play for the sixty-eighth and eighty-fifth time, respectively - but only in order to "moralise over the depravity of human nature" and "see the spectators".

Knowing of the anthropologist's refusal to moralise about other people's lifestyles (in the opening scene he is seen refusing to interfere in a human sacrifice and concerned only for the quality of the film he is shooting), the vampires employ him to write their story.

There is, my dear Mr. Stevenson (so I moralise blandly as we sit together on the devil's garden-wall), no more abominable sin than this gloom, this plaguey peevishness; why (say I) what matters it if we be a little uncomfortable - that is no reason for mangling our unhappy wives.