moralisticadjective
uk/ˌmɒr.əlˈɪs.tɪk/us/ˌmɔːr.əlˈɪs.tɪk/disapprovingjudging people and trying to make them behave according to standards of right and wrong that never change and may be too severe or unfair:
Drug addicts need sympathetic, not moralistic, treatment.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feeling morally superior
- claim
- claim the moral high ground idiom
- de haut en bas
- holier-than-thou
- judgmental
- preachy
- priggish
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- superior
- superiority complex