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moralizingly

moralizingly adverb: in a moralizing fashion.

Adverb

moralizingly (comparative more moralizingly, superlative most moralizingly)

  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

Forms of moralizingly

comparativemore moralizingly
superlativemost moralizingly

Origin of moralizingly

From moralizing + -ly.

Questions about moralizingly

What does moralizingly mean?
Moralizingly means in a moralizing fashion.
What part of speech is moralizingly?
Moralizingly is an adverb.

Words near moralizingly in the dictionary

  1. moralized
  2. moralizer
  3. moralizers
  4. moralizes
  5. moralizing
  6. moralizingly
  7. moralizings
  8. morall
  9. moralled
  10. moraller
  11. morallers

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