0 present participle of moralize --
1 to express judgments about what is morally right and wrong: --
his parents' self-righteous moralizing
Scherzinger provides a truly thoughtful and challenging model for theorizing music analysis and gender, vastly more powerful than the moralizing trends in music gender studies he scrupulously critiques.
Occasionally, they used progressive language to present their policies as modern, but they often clung to the traditional prison regime based on strict punishment, military discipline, and moralizing lectures.
In common with reports by social workers written in this period, the investigations were characterized by unproven allegations, moralizing assumptions, and the reduction of deviant behaviour to biological determinants.
Articulating the culturally current association between women and horses, opponents of fashionable dress attempted through moralizing mockery to expose its fatuous character and make clear their own superior sensibilities.
In one important respect, these findings highlight the positive aspects of modern presidential moralizing, emphasizing that modern presidential rhetoric draws its strength from both traditional moral principles and visionary idealism.
We should remember, however, that the moralizing language was as much aimed at the evocation of a certain kind of law as the realization of the values it expressed.
Absenteeism was thought to arise from the demand for labour, but the moralizing discourse of the urban middle classes stressed other factors.
Etiquette manuals repeatedly emphasize the mistake of wearing colorful clothing for riding, often with moralizing anecdotes.
