Example sentences for: moralistic

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

  • Even the moralistic mystic of a grandmother, Lilian (Tovah Feldshuh), can't forestall Pearl's flowering.

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

  • The Europeanists are pragmatic rather than moralistic about Kosovo.

  • But Lee--whose treatment of violence in his other movies is considerably more equivocal--maintains a rare, moralistic distance.

  • Most of the nine or 10 men I interviewed at the shelter spoke of their experience in overtly moralistic terms: They talked about taking responsibility for themselves, for the money they earned, and even for the children whom they had fathered and then neglected.


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