moralizer

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Recent Examples of moralizer Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant. Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • The dynamic duo of Jonda Valentine, an artist and daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, and her longtime friend Christa Suppan, who started as a bartender when Lipstick first opened, share co-ownership of the two bars.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 July 2026
  • The street preacher asks if someone could be cited if a transgender person is offended if they are misgendered by another person.
    Emily Holshouser July 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Twenty years ago, moralists tried to strong arm a Texas private school into removing Annie Proulx’s sensitive story Brokeback Mountain from its curriculum.
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
  • Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 July 2026
  • According to historian, author and lecturer Roger Smith, Florida's absence from most Revolutionary War lessons stems from one key fact.
    Hank Tester, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • However, rather than blithely dismiss the consequences of legalization with eye-rolling contempt for the puritans, supporters should confront the adverse societal effects of cannabis — the pervasive urban stench, the traffic deaths and the pernicious effects on youth.
    Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Multiple readers of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 11Alive viewers have reached out to me with this specific concern.
    Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 5 July 2026
  • The park also came in second on USA TODAY 10Best’s list of top 10 theme parks, which is based on readers' votes.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Reconciliation today Searching for a path forward, contemporary Sámi artist and Lutheran catechist Lars Levi Sunna began to produce church art that incorporated and celebrated pre-Christian Sámi symbols – some of the very traditions that had been demonized by clergy of the past.
    Thomas A. DuBois, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
  • But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019

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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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