moralizer

He is not a moralizer, opposed to the gaming industry.

He's not a moralizer either, though his best stories are thick with moral implication.

She is not a television critic or a moralizer.

It is normal, I suppose, to get some satisfaction when the moralizer gets his own dose.

Nancy was a moralizer and her displays of modesty a bit too showy.

He is a pompous, hypocritical moralizer who delights in being unfaithful to his wife.

Yet she can seem as ambivalent about changing family mores as any country-and-western moralizer.

Some in his own party say on condition of anonymity that Connecticut's junior senator is increasingly conservative and something of a moralizer.

Jed could himself be a fierce moralizer.

A moralizer might find abundant themes for his speculative and impracticable wisdom in a garret.

For a moralizer, you're quite a fellow."

He became nothing more than a cheerleader and moralizer, exhorting Henry, ad nauseam, to work hard, to stay sharp.

Sir Herbert was no priggish moralizer.

And while some of his colleagues have dubbed him the "conscience of the Senate," he has also been criticized as something of a moralizer.

Such vulgar dichotomies are noted by Renko, but unlike many novelistic sleuths he has never been a moralizer or a wit.

He's variously an absurdist and a moralizer, a populist and a loner, and an iconoclast haunted by God.

Rising above morality may have been awkward for the President, for instance, since no one had played the moralizer more earnestly when he was selling war to the public last winter.

HERM.: Have you not heard that Rudygiulianis, the famed moralizer, has just arrived from Piraeus and is even now lecturing the youth of Athens?

The lodgers are strange, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim.

Mr. Turk's ascetic, scholarly, truly "outward-sainted" depiction of a smarmy moralizer suggests smoldering possibilities, but he is made to be evil, he is forgiven, and that's that.

Here the editor celebrates the degree to which Fowler was a man of unswerving principle and, in the words of his rival Otto Jespersen, the famous Danish grammarian, an "instinctive grammatical moralizer."

But clearly, the experience of the last year has been hard on Mr. Lieberman, who is considered a bit of a moralizer and was the first in his party to reprimand the President sternly after he admitted his affair.

In 30 years in office, including 12 as a senator, Mr. Lieberman, of Connecticut, has earned a reputation as a gentleman, a bit of a moralizer but likable, someone who works easily with Republicans and Democrats.

Barbara Bader, in her encyclopedic history of American children's books, writes that Seuss, like children themselves, is "a natural moralizer . . . it comes to him as unselfconsciously (and unambiguously) as rhyming lines from an engine's beat."

He sought words: wistful, delicate, intelligent, charming. . . . And he saw that she was honest, no prig, no rigid moralizer from the bourgeois world, but merely an innocent who believed in what she was saying.