Overcoming these assumptions requires more than avoiding the moralistic buzz words that infect our conversations about food, even though that is at least a good place to start.
She was appalled, for instance, by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, whom she considered extreme, polarizing, moralistic and — to use her favorite word — "unattractive".
A third problem is that of the moralistic and criminal connotations of the word "corruption".
She was the child actor who, aged just 11, not only played an ultraviolent pre-teen killer called Hit-Girl in 2010's Kick-Ass, but sent shockwaves rippling through the moralistic media with her casual deployment of the word "cunt".
Burroughs, who could be startlingly moralistic, abhorred abortion; and so a son, Billy, joined the family.
Religion and religious practice are increasingly criticised as rigid, moralistic and unnecessary in many Western countries and the word spiritual has come to stand in opposition to them.
Words like these led critics to castigate Mr. McGovern as a moralistic scold who was angry at his own country.
It is, in fact, a crime story about an ex-con who robs an old lady of her coin collection and was, in the words of Charles Barr, exceptional for the time in that it was "neither police-centred or moralistic".
Most of us don't use the word in our day-to-day lives, though we might run across it in a moralistic 18th-century novel or, as Merriam-Webster points out, in recent political speech: "Both Senator John McCain and Governor Chris Christie, among others, have used the word in highly publicized speeches or debates". .
Other people get moralistic.
