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Adjective: puritanical  ,pyûr-i'ta-ni-kul
  1. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my puritanical Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts";
    - priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed [archaic], straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian, bluenosed [US, informal], uptight [informal]
     
  2. Morally rigorous and strict
    "she was anything but puritanical in her behaviour";
    - blue, puritanic
     
  3. Of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism

See also: nonindulgent, proper, strict

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