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puritanical Adjective 1. Usually disparaging strict in moral or religious outlook 2. (sometimes cap) of or relating to a puritan or the Puritans puritanically adv
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puritanical adjective strict, forbidding, puritan, stuffy, narrow, severe, proper, stiff, rigid, disapproving, austere, fanatical, bigoted, prim, ascetic, narrow-minded, prudish, strait-laced << OPPOSITE liberal |
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She is a heavy, solid person, very limited, intensely respectable, and inclined to be puritanical. Holding his prayer-book upside down, or open at any place but the right, he did nothing but stare about him, unless he happened to catch my aunt's eye or mine, and then he would drop his own on his book, with a puritanical air of mock solemnity that would have been ludicrous, if it had not been too provoking. For example, look at the puritanical procureur, who has just lost his daughter, and in fact nearly all his family, in so singular a manner; Morcerf dishonored and dead; and then myself covered with ridicule through the villany of Benedetto; besides" -- |
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puritanical - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
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