| 单词 | moralize |
| 释义 | moralize (once / 4589 pages) v When you moralize, you lecture someone about right and wrong, judging their decisions and actions. It’s just plain wrong for people to moralize! Oops. If you know someone who complains about "kids today" and pontificates about how things were in the past, adding an opinion of the proper way to act, you're familiar with the verb moralize. At the heart of moralize is moral, from the Latin root moralis, "proper behavior of a person in society," and someone who moralizes simply wants to share their own idea of what's moral — unfortunately, they tend to do it in an overly superior way. WORD FAMILYmoralize: moralization, moralized, moralizes, moralizing+/amoral: amoralism, amorality, amorally/amoralism: amoralist/amoralist: amoralists/immoral: immorality, immorally/immorality: immoralities/moral: amoral, immoral, moralise, moralism, morality, moralize, morally, morals/moralisation: moralisations/moralise: moralisation, moralised, moralises, moralising/moralism: moralisms, moralist/moralist: moralists/moralistic: moralistically/morality: moralistic, moralities/moralization: moralizations/moralizing: moralizings USAGE EXAMPLESUsing moralizing rhetoric to sell the idea of a healthy breakfast in the 19th century changed how people thought about the meal, says Carroll. The Guardian(Nov 28, 2016) Russia is already exploring in the Arctic and won’t be deterred by American moralizing. Wall Street Journal(Nov 25, 2016) Ms. Bachelet moralizes endlessly against inequality and blames the market, as if economic freedom has not been behind decades of falling poverty rates. Wall Street Journal(Oct 31, 2016) 1v speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements Syn|Hyper moralise, preachify, sermonise, sermonize advocate, preach speak, plead, or argue in favor of 2v interpret the moral meaning of moralize a story Syn|Hyper moralise interpret, rede give an interpretation or explanation to 3v improve the morals of Syn|Hyper moralise reclaim, rectify, reform, regenerate bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one |
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