moralized

Men are to be moralized, that is, by developing in them those motives to action which Pascal had regarded with particular horror (Pensées, 142) — the desire to avoid public reprobation and to win public esteem.

PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN JOHN PASSMORE 1968

There, too, we met a match for sighing Orlando, -- mirrored in the water; there, too, some diluted Jaques may have "moralized" the excursion for next day's "Courier," and some lout of a Touchstone (there are always such in picnics) passed the ices, made poor puns, and won more than his share of the smiles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

If the writer has not "moralized," it was because the true life, seen with the living eye, is better than any precept, however skilfully it may be dressed by the rhetorical genius of the moralist.

Work and Win or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise Oliver Optic 1859

Darfur is a place where "evil lives", so they have completely "moralized" the conflict and presented it as a struggle against evil.

RaceWire 2009

"moralized" under their tuition; architecture adopted the baroque style, gaudy and insincere.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

This harmony and order -- a moralized nature -- is what Scruton means by the "sacred," the capturing of which is the duty of artists.

Art and Culture 2010

This harmony and order -- a moralized nature -- is what Scruton means by the "sacred," the capturing of which is the duty of artists.

Philosophy and Literature 2009

The changes over time would involve a lot of language freighted with moralized “pure” eating: organic, natural, no “toxins,” locally-grown, problems with “processing.”

Thin is In « Awful Library Books 2010

While you diligently pursued that favorite phantom of yours, called profits, and moralized about that favorite fetich of yours, called competition, even greater and more direful things have been accomplished by combination.

Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers 2010

She moralized over same-sex marriage, but expected forgiveness and understanding when, thanks to tabloid pictures, America got to know her in the biblical sense.

Conservatives of Convenience 2010