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- verb Present participle of
moralise .
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Examples
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It's no good indulging ourselves in moralising lectures yet at the same time we cannot just stand by as if it doesn't matter.
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Bad-assness slightly curtailed at end of film by a bit of Bond moralising, which is a bit rich given his pedigree.
unknown title 2009
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Trends in UN reform – as indeed in the reshaping of some other global institutions whose moral credibility has come to look rather shopworn in recent years, the WTO and the World Bank for instance – are driving towards the 'moralising' or civilising of the global economy and the world of international negotiation.
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The book ends with a prayer, and contains thirty-three chapters, the same number, remarks Cassiodorus (who is addicted to this kind of moralising on numbers) that was reached by the years of the life of Christ on earth.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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American approach with Indian "moralising" that irritated Washington to no end.
nst online 2010
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American approach with Indian "moralising" that irritated Washington to no end.
nst online 2010
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It is natural then that his critics should gleefully latch on to his 'moralising' tone.
Medindia Health News 2010
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I am pretty much totally with Tim Brayton: the most sickening part of the whole circus is the film's palpable desire to be seen as beyond the pale, just the right thing to shock the squares while all the cool hip kids get to assert their aesthetic superiority over the moralising blue-hairs ...
intertribal: kick ass intertribal 2010
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I am pretty much totally with Tim Brayton: the most sickening part of the whole circus is the film's palpable desire to be seen as beyond the pale, just the right thing to shock the squares while all the cool hip kids get to assert their aesthetic superiority over the moralising blue-hairs ...
this is about to go off!, a.k.a. fuck yeah! intertribal 2010
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I wrote it at the request of the editor of a Madrid migration journal who asked for an article about migrants who sell sex that would be free of moralising.
A ‘course’ on trafficking with only one hurdle « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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