sermonizers
Those who moralize
Sermonizers are people who deliver sermons or, more commonly, those who lecture others in a moralizing way.
The word usually carries a negative connotation—nobody wants to be called a sermonizer.
It suggests someone who preaches tediously about right and wrong: The talk show hosts turned into sermonizers, wagging their fingers at the audience.
Clergy who deliver sermons
- ministersReligious leaders or officials
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
- evangelistsZealous advocates for causes
pastors · exhorters · revivalists · prophets · missionaries · divines · clerics · moralists
Passionate advocates for change
- advocatesThose who support causes
- activistsPeople working for causes
- campaignersPeople promoting a cause
- reformersAdvocates for institutional improvement
abolitionists · temperance · suffragists · pamphleteer · agitators · firebrands · soapbox · stump
Those who teach formally
- moralizersThose who preach ethics
- scoldsHarshly criticizes aloud
- nagsPesters without ceasing
- pedantsThose fixated on minutiae
pontificators · harangues · admonishers · chastisers · sanctimonious · holier-than-thou · self-righteous · preachy
preachers
Clergy who deliver sermons
- ministersReligious leaders or officials
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
evangelists · pastors · exhorters · revivalists · prophets · missionaries · divines · clerics · moralists · televangelists
crusaders
Passionate advocates for change
- advocatesThose who support causes
- activistsPeople working for causes
- campaignersPeople promoting a cause
reformers · abolitionists · temperance · suffragists · pamphleteer · agitators · firebrands · soapbox · stump · rallying
lecturers
Those who teach formally
- moralizersThose who preach ethics
- scoldsHarshly criticizes aloud
- nagsPesters without ceasing
pedants · pontificators · harangues · admonishers · chastisers · sanctimonious · holier-than-thou · self-righteous · preachy · didactic
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
sermonizerslisteners
Those who attend aurally
audience · congregants · parishioners · hearers · recipients
sermonizerslibertines
Morally dissolute individuals
sinners · doers · transgressors · practitioners · wrongdoers