moralist

derogatory

(derogatory) One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship. / A teacher of morals; a person who studies morality; a moral philosopher.

Japanese Meaning

（軽蔑的な意味合いで）道徳を根拠にすべての決定を下し、場合によっては検閲などを通じてその基準を強制する人 / 道徳を教える人、または道徳について研究する人、すなわち道徳哲学者

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The columnist derided the mayor as a moralist who used censorship to silence anyone who disagreed.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

そのコラムニストは、市長が検閲で異論を黙らせる道徳警察のような人物だと非難した。

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Sense（1）

(derogatory) One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.

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A teacher of morals; a person who studies morality; a moral philosopher.

What must the old man have felt as, in ghastly terrifying solitude, by the light of one lamp feebly illuminating a little space of gloom, he in a few brief lines daubed the history of his nation's death upon the cavern wall? What a subject for the moralist, or the painter, or indeed for any one who can think!

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moralists

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