If you describe someone or something as moralistic, you are critical of them for making harsh judgments of other people on the basis of their own ideas about what is right and wrong.
[disapproval]
He has become more moralistic.
To me moralistic films are just unbearable.
moralistic in American English
(ˌmɔrəlˈɪstɪk; ˌ mɑrəlˈɪstɪk)
adjective
1.
moralizing
2.
of moralism or moralists
Derived forms
moralistically (ˌmoralˈistically)
adverb
Examples of 'moralistic' in a sentence
moralistic
He had left Sydney fourteen years ago with almost $500,000 as his share of the - well, call it scam, if you want to be moralistic.
Jon Cleary YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)
Oh, but listen, to be driven crazy by that kind of moralistic scolding you'd have to be crazy already.