puritanical
adjective
very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
unpuritanical
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a word derived from
puritanical.
Example Sentences
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There never was a more easy-going, care-free, unpuritanical lot than Huck and Jim, the two farcical "hoboes," Tom Sawyer, and the rest.
From Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
The very exterior of it is Catholic, unpuritanical; no methodism about the square windows, set here and there at undecided intervals wheresoever they may be wanted.
From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Edward Abbott Parry
