Example sentences for: moralistic

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

  • Gingrich is blamed for the party's sinking popularity, but leaders still practice his brand of antagonistic, moralistic politicking.

  • The Europeanists are pragmatic rather than moralistic about Kosovo.

  • The Americans are "a moralistic and sexophobic race," he said, but a president has to understand this and make the necessary sacrifices.

  • These folks are Reaganites who did not give up Reagan's imperial, moralistic vision when the Cold War ended.

  • William Safire argues that "Jesuitical" has by now developed a sense devoid of any overtones of prevarication: "subtle, intricate, moralistic reasoning, informed by a rigorous logic" is his definition.


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