sanctimonious, preachy, dogmatic, puritanical, censorious, judgmental, polemical, absolutist, manichean, manichaean, moral, amoral, priggish, pietistic, sententious, didactic, religionist, materialistic, reductionist, reactionary, egoistical, calvinistic, revisionist, jingoistic, puritan, melodramatic, glib, politically correct, legalistic, uncompassionate, philosophical, prudish, humanistic, simplistic, pious, pedantic, nihilistic, solipsistic, illiberal, philosophic, unpolitical, positivistic, deontological, obscurantist, cynical, antifeminist, reductive, chauvinistic, saccharine, nuanced, consumerist, universalistic, idealistic, schoolmarmish, simpleminded, fatalistic, hypocritical, doctrinaire, blinkered, ideological, liberalist, escapist, isolationist, overdetermined, rationalistic, humorless, antinomian, ethnocentric, obtuse, hackneyed, paternalistic, lunkheaded, rebarbative, fatuous, speciesist, dispassionate, mealymouthed, ahistorical, universalist, onanistic, tu quoque, venal, pompous, hedonistic, irreligious, maudlin, masculinist, ineloquent, formalistic, pragmatic, overcritical, crass, vacuous, vapid, perverse, cliched, meanspirited, grandiloquent, homiletic, literalized, softheaded, antipathetic, anthropocentric, historicist, rationalist, voluntarist, elitist, idealist, individualistic, subjectivist, traditionalist, voluntaristic, materialist, accommodationist, consequentialist, culturalist, economistic, misogynistic, nationalistic

francois de la rochefoucauld, la rochefoucauld, mcguffey eclectic readers, preaching, sermon

moral