moralizingly

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English

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Etymology

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From moralizing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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moralizingly (comparative more moralizingly, superlative most moralizingly)

  1. 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.