moralizingly

adv

moralizingly

adv

Etymology From moralizing + -ly.

1

In a moralizing fashion.

  • He sat himself down in an arbor, and looked moralizingly over the initials, the dates, and the witticisms, that hands, long since mouldering, have consigned to the admiration of posterity.1840, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Flower Basket; Or, A Selection of Interesting Stories, page 79:

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