puritanical
adjective
Origin of puritanical
Related Words for puritanical
prudish, rigid, austere, conforming, moral, priggish, prim, prissy, stern, strict, stuffy, abstinentExamples from the Web for puritanical
Contemporary Examples of puritanical
His distaste derives from a basic confusion in the position of the puritanical prescriptivist.
Pope Paul VI and the Church at that time could be forgiven for puritanical idealism.
The Vatican's Same-Sex Synod: The Bishops Hear About Reality. Do They Listen?Barbie Latza Nadeau
October 12, 2014
So, people sped by the models less out of puritanical deference to the naked bodies, but to keep up their steely reputations.
Maybe not such a huge problem for the puritanical but sometime very practical mullahs.
Saudi society and government are intricately intertwined with a puritanical flavor of Islam, Wahhabism.
Historical Examples of puritanical
They are puritanical with intelligence, and independent with a certain grace.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
After a divorce—Seth's idea of divorces were vague and Puritanical—there would be no hope.
The Woman-HatersJoseph C. Lincoln
There was in Hazlitt, however, a puritanical fervor which withstood the lure of expediency.
Erik DornBen Hecht
I've had too much of your puritanical, psalm-singing business.
Under FireCharles King
Voltaire, the least Puritanical of men, is also the least neurotic.
Suspended JudgmentsJohn Cowper Powys