Example sentences for: moralism

How can you use “moralism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Legal pragmatism vs. legal moralism: Pro-lifers regard the law as a moral teacher.

  • Remember, I'm not asking for "Just Say No" ads or any other form of moralism.

  • Also on the theme of lefty hypocrisy, a piece derides the "steep decline of liberal moralism."

  • It is good to know that, partly through the energetic offices of Henry Louis Gates, black studies can, as it were, pay its way these days and not be dependent for its existence on a kind of political and cultural moralism on the part of whites and a kind of fetishlike piety on the part of blacks.

  • The Yankee's secularized Puritanism combines an enthusiasm for social reform--such as abolitionism, Prohibition, women's suffrage, civil rights, eugenics, and the anti-smoking crusade--with an often-priggish moralism and an apocalyptic horror of "corruption."


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