moralized

verb

past tense of moralize
as in preached

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  1. preached
  2. lectured
  3. inculcated
Verb
  • Meanwhile, travel baseball killed the fabric of community that Little League has preached forever.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The church has always preached that humans are created in God’s image; by assuming the messy fragility of human form, God’s son sanctified human experience.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of preached
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  • None of that made it into the discussion before Wilder lectured the girls about how to think.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Parsipur taught at Brown University in the early 2000s and lectured internationally throughout the ensuing decades.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 13 July 2026
Definition of lectured
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  • We were constantly informed that our purpose was to become genteel and inculcated in Christian virtue.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • Patriotism is a value that an IP-dependent tech company fighting Chinese rivals might well be happy to see inculcated in its employees.
    — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Definition of inculcated
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