单词	moralistic
释义	moralisticmor‧al‧ist‧ic /ˌmɒrəˈlɪstɪk◂ $ ˌmɔː-/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a moralistic, middle-class newspaper Our teachers were dull, uninspiring, and moralistic. We need practical approaches to preventing teen pregnancies, not moralistic ones. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Brown, of course, is anything but moralistic. He handed Eleanor's book to a moralistic old bag he had once done a writing workshop with. In the eighteenth century criticism was less moralistic than utilitarian and economic. It was a very moralistic, religious-based, money-making pyramid. Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic, precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required. Some readers may give them a moralistic spin, arguing that they prove something essential about gay men or homosexuality or promiscuity. They are stepping over the invisible, moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition. Willem Dafoe has played both sides of the moralistic coin. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorthinking you are morally better than other people► self-righteous feeling very confident about how good you are and about your high moral standards, in a way that annoys other people: · His grandparents were stern and self-righteous people.· I've got nothing against vegetarians, but some of them are so self-righteous! ► sanctimonious behaving as if you are morally better than other people, especially in telling them what you think is right and wrong: · Don't be so sanctimonious, Helen! I'll live my life the way I want to live it.· The Principal reacted to the school party with an air of sanctimonious disapproval. ► holier-than-thou showing other people very clearly that you think you are morally better than they are: · I know he doesn't smoke or drink but I wish he wasn't so holier-than-thou.· She was intensely irritated by Emma's holier-than-thou attitude. ► moralistic telling other people what you think is right or wrong about their behaviour, especially in an annoying way or when you have no right to do this: · Our teachers were dull, uninspiring, and moralistic.· a moralistic, middle-class newspaper ► preachy trying too hard to make people accept your ideas about what it right or wrong, especially when this is unnecessary or annoying: · It's not a bad book, but it's a bit preachy.· Much of the film is preachy, pretentious, and slow. Word family WORD FAMILYnounmoralmoralsmorality ≠ immoralitymoralistamoralityadjectivemoral ≠ immoralamoralmoralisticverbmoralizeadverbmorally ≠ immorally with very strong beliefs about what is right and wrong, especially when this makes you judge other people’s behaviour:  It’s difficult to talk to teenagers about drugs without sounding too moralistic.
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