Crossword-Solution: MORALISTIC
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| Clue | Answers |
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| On a high horse | 1 answer |
| Righteously ethical | 1 answer |
| Upright, to a fault | 1 answer |
| Self righteous | 4 answers |
| hypocritical | 53 answers |
| Ethical | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MORALISTIC (5)
But whereas the merely moralistic spurning takes an effort of volition, the Christian spurning is the result of the excitement of a higher kind of emotion, in the presence of which no exertion of volition is required.
Under these circumstances the way to success, as vouched for by innumerable authentic personal narrations, is by an anti‐moralistic method, by the “surrender” of which I spoke in my second lecture.
Some say that the capacity or incapacity for it is what divides the religious from the merely moralistic character.
Protestantism has been too pessimistic as regards the natural man, Catholicism has been too legalistic and moralistic, for either the one or the other to appeal in any generous way to the type of character formed of this peculiar mingling of elements.
The ordinary moralistic state of mind makes the salvation of the world conditional upon the success with which each unit does its part.
Quotes with MORALISTIC (3)
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.
I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.
The reactionary of any kind condemns sexual pleasure because it stimulates and repulses him at the same time. He is unable to solve the conflict within him between sexual demands and moralistic inhibitions. The revolutionary refutes the perverse, unhealthy kind of pleasure, because it is not his kind of pleasure, because it is not the sexuality of the future, but the sexuality which results from the conflict between instinct and morals, the sexuality of authoritarian society,…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1973–2020).