moralizeverb [ I ]
disapproving UK usually moralise uk/ˈmɒr.əl.aɪz/us/ˈmɔːr.əl.aɪz/to express judgments about what is morally right and wrong:
his parents' self-righteous moralizing
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morality and rules of behaviour
- antisocial
- bioethics
- book
- claim
- conscience
- decency
- double standard
- morality
- morally
- norm
- object lesson
- precept
- social contract
- spirit
- the rights and wrongs idiom
- the ways of the world idiom
- two wrongs don't make a right idiom
- value
- voice
- wrong
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