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Meanings of moralize in English
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Examples for "moralise"
Examples for "moralise"
1
What would a historian be who, instead of making researches, would moralise?
2
But it is not the object of this book to moralise.
3
To moralise this story, Virgil is the Apollo who has this dispensing power.
4
It went out of fashion, says Chuang Tzŭ, when people began to moralise.
5
A third person, whose vanity was not concerned, might moralise thus-
1
I could volubly sermonize; only it should be a young maid to listen.
2
You going to use a lectern and sermonize or do the walkabout talk-show act?
3
But it was impossible to quiet Savéliitch when once he had begun to sermonize.
4
You might sit and sermonize just as well, mightn't you?
5
Heaven knows I have no right to sermonize; but, at least, I never shammed anything.
1
But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.
2
Have you, too, come to preach and sermonise?
3
You used occasionally to sermonise too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.
4
People stood side by side for hours, singing hymns and listening to the pastor, Paul Enenche, sermonise on the dangers of plagues.
5
Any man able to sermonise better, or rhapsodise more cheaply, or beat the bush of divinity more energetically, can occupy the pulpit tomorrow.
1
"I'd rather hear you preachify," she said, "than the preacher himself."
2
"Soon as the gals and I get the dishes done, we'll be out to hear Abe preachify."
Usage of moralize in English
1
Wilt moralize on the folly of the time,-thevices of the age?
2
One could moralize on this at considerable length, but better not, perhaps.
3
Only with regret can a writer forbear to moralize on this subject.
4
Never criticize, antagonize or moralize-andyour company will be sought by everyone.
5
If we go and moralize it can be tricky and backfire in Afghanistan.
6
Usually silent and absorbed, it was not his gift to moralize or declaim.
7
I can add no better apology, and quit you to moralize on it.-Yours
8
It affords one a great chance to moralize, at any rate.
9
Indeed, I could not moralize on this theme if I tried.
10
Aunt Betsey-thewickedness of this world-butI haven't time to moralize this morning.
11
He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it.
12
However, I do not mean to moralize; but one cannot always sink the philosopher.
13
The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals-heknows the soul.
14
So he watched the woman gravely, and began to moralize with all his might.
15
But it is not thus that statesmen and warriors moralize.
16
We'll moralize over the crowds at the tables down there.
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