moralizingly

English[edit]

moralizingly (comparative more moralizingly, superlative most moralizingly)

In a moralizing fashion.
- 1840, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Flower Basket; Or, A Selection of Interesting Stories, page 79:
  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.