treated as pluralThe majority of people, regarded as favouring firm moral standards.
道德多数派(指维护严格道德标准的大多数人)
smokers are often made to feel like social outcasts by the moral majority
道德多数派让烟民感觉自己像是社会弃儿。
Example sentencesExamples
Even more infuriating are the self-righteous hypocrites who claim to speak for a superior moral majority.
The military itself, at least, isn't behaving as stupidly as the moral majority crowd is.
They have no moral majority to make this stance, and I say that it is an affront to our Westminster democratic system.
We have to be very careful of minorities that present themselves as the moral majority when they are not.
The people who want cannabis to stay banned, however, seem to consider themselves the moral majority.
Harshly criticised at first by the moral majority, most protests were eventually forgotten as its genius came to be recognised as a vital part of US popular culture.
It is unfortunate that we have not been able to secure a UN resolution or even a moral majority.
The moral majority types, many of whom had never even seen the film were all up in arms against it.
Opposition, predictably, arrived from church groups and from the moral majority, who attacked the idea as a further erosion of traditional family values.
Origin
1970s: originally as Moral Majority, the name of a right-wing movement in the US.