We should also not moralize, like bomber pilots, according to size. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
moralize a story. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Two stanzas in English moralize the situation, and for our present purpose may be ignored. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Burns How To Know Him] Reference
This tendency to thrift is strongest in boys, and both sexes often show the tendency to moralize, that is so strong in the early teens. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
(He seems to be using "moralize" in a sense that makes it a good thing, something like a "critique" of human behavior.). From Wordnik.com. [The State of Criticism] Reference
For I was too young to moralize or attempt philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
Indeed, I could not moralize on this theme if I tried. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Dodd] Reference
It is as useless to moralize to a lover as to a tiger. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
We find no occasion to moralize in closing this story. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years with the Outcast] Reference
I'm tired of listening to you moralize about my actions. From Wordnik.com. [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference
I can add no better apology, and quit you to moralize on it. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
We will not stop the reader to moralize on this disastrous event. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
But I moralize, and this does not well suit my present condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828] Reference
We can moralize all we want about how Americans "shouldn't" care. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Edwards Asks For Privacy] Reference
We would not stop the reader to moralize on this disastrous event. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
There was a strong tend - ency to idealize, generalize, and moralize. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Senator Weicker would pontificate and moralize to a very great degree. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Herman Talmadge, July 29 and August 1, 1975. Interview A-0331-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
They feel we moralize to them -- I think this is not going to be news to you. From Wordnik.com. [Interview Of The President By Science Magazine] Reference
How Rush can moralize by Bill Hare on Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 at 11: 05: 30 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Limbaugh as Miss America Judge: What a Travesty!] Reference
I give the intelligent reader ten minutes to pause and moralize after digestion. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
Here we might moralize if we had the room, but moralizing is out of the question. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
"Really, Miss Selwyn, you can moralize on every subject, I believe, with equal ease.". From Wordnik.com. [Medoline Selwyn's Work] Reference
For many adults, it might not seem desirable to moralize about war to young children. From Wordnik.com. [The Enemy: A Book About Peace] Reference
He didn't use them to teach a lesson; he didn't use them to make judgments or moralize. From Wordnik.com. [All Politics is Local and other Rules of the Game] Reference
And so I-- you know, I don't think that he is in a position to moralize too much about this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2008] Reference
They have no right to moralize and no standing to be sanctimonious -- that should be our job. From Wordnik.com. [Cristina Page: The Pro Teen Sex and Unwanted Pregnancy Movement] Reference
He saw that old Chapin wanted to moralize a little, and he was only too glad to fall in with his mood. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Once started, he settled back and began to cross-question himself, and to moralize over the situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedge of Gold] Reference
Some are prone to moralize over precious stones, and see in them the petrified souls of men and women. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
As to the first, it was strange enough to moralize upon the after-fortunes of some of our contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
We moralize in our jesting like the Turk, but are likely to veil the maxim under the motley of a Yiddish dialect. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Some pundits called him the conscience of his party, an invitation to moralize and a dubious distinction even if true. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Curry: Lieberman, Bipartisanship and War] Reference
"You can stand here and moralize till the cows come home, and it won't move you half an inch in the direction of the mine!". From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
We asked questions that were pertinent and we didn't moralize and pontificate and get off inside shows and things of that nature. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Herman Talmadge, July 15 and 24, 1975. Interview A-0331-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
So he descends to more mundane things, to moralize at last upon the waiter's fate and the folly of quarrelling with our lot in life. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
It is only by the use of this saving clause that one may safely moralize or generalize or indulge in the mildest form of prediction. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
Let the U.S. lead by realizing women's rights at home before it invades other nations where it can moralize about "tribal" practices. From Wordnik.com. [Kavita N. Ramdas: Violence Against Women Is No Rationale for Military Violence] Reference
As the day grows more somber and the evening shadows begin to fall, they meditate, they moralize, they substitute prayers for dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
You lost the right to moralize about the same time you strapped on a pair of adult diapers and/or opened your stance a little too wide. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Sweeney: Chutzpah Defined: Vitter and Craig Co-Sponsor Marriage Amendment] Reference
Not skillfully, hiding the sermon amid lively talk and adventure, but blazoning the fact that he was going to moralize as long as he would. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
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