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moralizing
noun
(mor-al-iz-ing)
indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code
Synonyms:
moralisation
,
moralization
,
Examples:
His constant moralizing drove me mad.
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moralizing
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moralism
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didacticism
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sanctimoniousness
,
sanctimony
,
priggishness
,
puerility
,
morality
,
hectoring
,
pompousness
,
polemic
,
dogmatist
,
claptrap
,
literalism
,
legalism
,
misanthropy
,
sentimentality
,
pedantry
,
clownishness
,
attitudinizing
,
materialism
,
moralist
,
dilettantism
,
platitudes
,
superficiality
,
pieties
,
uptightness
,
grandiloquence
,
cliches
,
mindlessness
,
sentimentalism
,
sappiness
,
ingratiation
,
libertinism
,
carnality
,
harlotry
,
melodramatics
,
conformism
,
humbuggery
,
roguery
,
wishfulness
,
political correctness
,
jingoism
,
philosophizing
,
huckstering
,
presentism
,
ponderousness
,
fustiness
,
salaciousness
,
pomposity
,
melodrama
,
hypocrisies
,
sermonizing
,
immorality
,
pietism
,
vacuousness
,
preachment
,
crudity
,
lunkheaded
,
moralise
,
revisionism
,
bombast
,
solipsist
,
hokum
,
lechery
,
charlatanry
,
popery
,
journalese
,
caviling
,
subjectivism
,
schmaltz
,
dogmatism
,
tropes
,
hagiography
,
foppery
,
dogma
,
politically correct
,
wordiness
,
diabolism
,
historicism
,
archness
,
facetiousness
,
glibness
,
daftness
,
popularism
,
speciesist
,
supernaturalism
,
demagogy
,
conceit
,
silliness
,
piousness
,
scatology
,
allusions
,
insidiousness
,
puritanism
,
superciliousness
,
hedonism
,
inanity
,
epigrams
,
tawdriness
,
prudery
,
moralizing
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