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puritanical adjective [ pjʊərɪˈtanɪk(ə)l ]

• having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.
• "his puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation"
Similar: moralistic, pietistic, strait-laced, tight-laced, stuffy, starchy, prissy, prudish, puritan, prim, priggish, Victorian, schoolmarmish, schoolmistressy, old-maidish, narrow-minded, censorious, sententious, austere, severe, spartan, ascetic, hair-shirt, abstemious, goody-goody, Grundyish,
Opposite: permissive, broad-minded,


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