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moral majority

 noun
     
moral majority

the moral majority

PPGRRC the group of people in a society who have strong moral beliefs and think they are always right. In the US there is an organized group called the Moral Majority, who have strong Christian principles:
Smokers today are often made to feel like social outcasts by the moral majority.
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