moralistic

How To Use moralistic In A Sentence

• Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness. MACHIAVELLISM
• In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence. France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
• I don't think it's "illegal" but it's moralistically incorrect.
• But if lying is moralistically wrong, how can it ever be justified?
• The professor rhetorically asked, "Does the redemptive-historical school regard his appeal to be 'atomistic' and moralistic?"
• What is wrong is the inability to resist the temptation of delivering a moralistic little homily when someone does take out one of your seductively promoted loans.
• Their analysis too often mingles management jargon, misapplied analogy, moralistic rhetoric, impatience and fear. Times, Sunday Times
• But the intent has always been moralistic: to provide stable and benevolent government.
• But if he wants to be so moralistic, shouldn't his ministers also behave morally?
• Punic names were characteristically theophoric, and the Romanizing upper classes of North Africa typically assumed Latin names that retained the religious or moralistic connotations of the originals.