by Mike Comer March 5, 2022
Get the Mormanistic mug.Someone who is overly concerned with conventional morals and will often kick up a fuss over nothing. Typically, the word is used to describe someone with a petty, mechanical and shallow sense of morality; characterized by dogma and conventionality rather than reason, with no regard for context or nuance.
Person A: Swearing is bad in any context and should be criminalized! Think of the children!
Person B: They're only words. I could think up far more more vulgar things using only plain dictionary words than the use of any of one swear word. It's a non-issue. You're just being moralistic.
Person B: They're only words. I could think up far more more vulgar things using only plain dictionary words than the use of any of one swear word. It's a non-issue. You're just being moralistic.
by FollyAdvice January 17, 2018
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Get the Mormanistan mug.Pompous and judgmental upbraiding of someone according to a rule-book which you probably don't share
Moralistic Labor multiculturalism spokeswoman Michelle Rowland called on the PM to act (on Eric Abetz' use of the term 'Negro'). "It's 2015", she said, "just about every right-minded human recognises that it's a deeply offensive term"
by Auspol.news December 17, 2015
Get the moralistic mug.(adjective): When someone (for example Norman Reedus) tweets and says and not says
for example: Comin!! (where?? when? Tell us Noman!!)
for example: Comin!! (where?? when? Tell us Noman!!)
by Elys75 June 27, 2014
Get the Normanistic mug.An obnoxious, smug, self-superior and pseudo-intellectual manner of speaking, presenting/providing information, presenting oneself in a discussion or debate that is unhelpful, annoying and often operating on false information with the glib and narcissistic presupposition that one is already correct.
Discovered in the morally questionable journalism, methods of discussion/debate, pedantic and childish mentality of British journalist/talk show-host Piers Morgan
Discovered in the morally questionable journalism, methods of discussion/debate, pedantic and childish mentality of British journalist/talk show-host Piers Morgan
"You can't just Piers-Morganistically declare that to be the case without facts or evidence."
"The way that guy talks is so Piers-Morganistic, it's unbearable."
"Harassing a woman in her hospital bed to get a scoop for a newspaper is rather Piers-Morganistic.
"The way that guy talks is so Piers-Morganistic, it's unbearable."
"Harassing a woman in her hospital bed to get a scoop for a newspaper is rather Piers-Morganistic.
by Swilly Giggins May 2, 2024
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