Moralizing is an English word with synonyms like philosophizing. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Moralizing meaning
present participle and gerund of moralize
Synonyms of Moralizing
Using Moralizing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of moralize
- Useful related words include: moralization, moralisation, philosophizing.
- In the example corpus, moralizing often appears in combinations such as: moralizing and.
Context around Moralizing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Moralizing
- In this selection, "moralizing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, escapes, rights, perverse, elites, texts and disclaimers stand out and add context to how "moralizing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include always escapes moralizing and that and and perverse moralizing we re. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "moralizing" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with moralizing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One must remain open and work patiently without moralizing or expecting immediate results. (13 words)
In a subsequent 1753 edition, the Abbé Prévost toned down some scandalous details and injected more moralizing disclaimers. (18 words)
In Rudyard Kipling 's Puck of Pook's Hill, Puck holds to scorn the moralizing fairies of other Victorian works. (20 words)
Potter, 335. The fact that the edict began with a long rhetorical preamble betrays at the same time a moralizing stance as well as a weak grasp of economics – perhaps simply the wishful thinking that criminalizing a practice was enough to stop it. (43 words)
Yet a disaster that happens so similarly to so many seems a hard case for too much moralizing, since at its heart is the one thing that always escapes moralizing, and that is our own mortality. (36 words)
There has been a steady stream of studies for years over the failure of western development aid, humanitarian liberal intervention, and human rights moralizing elites and their many disasters, and the occasional progress of aid workers. (36 words)
Example sentences (10)
Yet a disaster that happens so similarly to so many seems a hard case for too much moralizing, since at its heart is the one thing that always escapes moralizing, and that is our own mortality.
There has been a steady stream of studies for years over the failure of western development aid, humanitarian liberal intervention, and human rights moralizing elites and their many disasters, and the occasional progress of aid workers.
From the looting, arson and even murder, to the abhorrent and perverse “moralizing” we’re being fed from every leftist Democrat venue, it is inarguable that right and wrong have been totally reversed.
One must remain open and work patiently without moralizing or expecting immediate results.
Champlin, Fronto, 120. Marcus thanks Rusticus for teaching him "not to be led astray into enthusiasm for rhetoric, for writing on speculative themes, for discoursing on moralizing texts.
Harris, Ancient Literacy, p. 3. Although the Church Fathers were well-educated, they regarded Classical literature as dangerous, if valuable, and reconstrued it through moralizing and allegorical readings.
In a subsequent 1753 edition, the Abbé Prévost toned down some scandalous details and injected more moralizing disclaimers.
In Rudyard Kipling 's Puck of Pook's Hill, Puck holds to scorn the moralizing fairies of other Victorian works.
Potter, 335. The fact that the edict began with a long rhetorical preamble betrays at the same time a moralizing stance as well as a weak grasp of economics – perhaps simply the wishful thinking that criminalizing a practice was enough to stop it.
Probably meant to be recited at elite gatherings, they differ from the Greek versions in their long declamatory, narrative accounts of action, their obtrusive moralizing, and their bombastic rhetoric.
Common combinations with moralizing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: