Moonie is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Moonie meaning
- A member of the Unification Church; a follower of its founder Sun Myung Moon.
- A person who shows exceptional enthusiasm for a cause or organization, a zealot.
- A nickname in English-speaking countries, sometimes for a person who moons around.
Synonyms of Moonie
Using Moonie
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of the Unification Church; a follower of its founder Sun Myung Moon. | A person who shows exceptional enthusiasm for a cause or organization, a zealot. | A nickname in English-speaking countries, sometimes for a person who moons around.
- Useful related words include: religious person.
- In the example corpus, moonie often appears in combinations such as: of moonie.
Context around Moonie
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Moonie
- In this selection, "moonie" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aaron, word, church, nabess and described stand out and add context to how "moonie" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include evidence that moonie recruits were and full time moonie membership in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "moonie" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with moonie
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
You rarely hear the word 'Moonie' anymore. (7 words)
The town of Moonie, Queensland in Australia was founded in 1840. (11 words)
The Moonie church controls everything in their members' lives, even their marriages. (12 words)
Bevel handed out fliers at the protest which said: "Are the Moonies our new niggers?" citation In 1990, a position paper sent from the Unification Church to The Fresno Bee said: "We will fight gratuitous use of the 'Moonie' or 'cult' pejoratives. (42 words)
Nabess said his daughter had come to live with him at his home on Opaskwayak Cree Nation, the First Nation near The Pas, about two years ago following the death of her brother, Gerd Aaron Moonie Nabess. (37 words)
Participants at Moonie retreats were not deprived of sleep ; the lectures were not "trance-inducing" and there was not much chanting, no drugs or alcohol, and little that could be termed "frenzy" or "ecstatic" experience. (35 words)
She has also criticized some mental health professionals, including Singer, for accepting expert witness jobs in court cases involving NRMs. citation Her 1984 book, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
The Moonie church controls everything in their members' lives, even their marriages.
Onyx, left, and Moonie are in rapt attention as a guest dangles a toy at The Cat House in Roselle.
Nabess said his daughter had come to live with him at his home on Opaskwayak Cree Nation, the First Nation near The Pas, about two years ago following the death of her brother, Gerd Aaron Moonie Nabess.
Moonie described the training activity as an “orientation workshop” for the members of the team to ensure that they knew what the first part of the assessment entailed and how they were to proceed.
Barker could find no evidence that Moonie recruits were ever kidnapped, confined, or coerced.
Bevel handed out fliers at the protest which said: "Are the Moonies our new niggers?" citation In 1990, a position paper sent from the Unification Church to The Fresno Bee said: "We will fight gratuitous use of the 'Moonie' or 'cult' pejoratives.
Of all those who visited a Moonie centre at least once, not one in two-hundred remained in the movement two years later.
Participants at Moonie retreats were not deprived of sleep ; the lectures were not "trance-inducing" and there was not much chanting, no drugs or alcohol, and little that could be termed "frenzy" or "ecstatic" experience.
She has also criticized some mental health professionals, including Singer, for accepting expert witness jobs in court cases involving NRMs. citation Her 1984 book, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?
The town of Moonie, Queensland in Australia was founded in 1840.
With failure rates exceeding 99.5%, it comes as no surprise that full-time Moonie membership in the U.S. never exceeded a few thousand.
You rarely hear the word 'Moonie' anymore.
Common combinations with moonie
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of moonie 2×