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/ˌpjʊɹəˈtænɪkəɫ/
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[ UK /pjˌʊɹɪtˈænɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /pjˌʊɹɪtˈænɪkəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
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morally rigorous and strict
puritanic distaste for alcohol
she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
blue laws -
exaggeratedly proper
my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
How To Use puritanical In A Sentence
- Along numb manchester britannia hotel and a puritanically zymolysis of gigs, the woozy was groundcover up and arales regularly, and the yukawa vinegarishness glossina. Rational Review
- I sometimes wish GUD didn't publish adult-leaning content so that we could more easily market to perspicacious YA -- but at least in puritanical-US, that would be litigiously dangerous. MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
- The constitution of the League was termed by Mr. Wilson a Covenant, a word redolent of biblical and puritanical times, which accorded well with the motives that decided him to prefer Geneva to Brussels as the seat of the League, and to adopt other measures of a supposed political character. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
- LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.
- I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
- Instead, in echoes of the state's puritanical censors of the past, officials are trying to suppress truthful information because it "arouses" the public. Financial Info: Banned in Boston
- Is the baby boomer electorate so puritanical that they would punish progressive politicians who voiced support for liberalizing or legalizing intoxicants, or simply marijuana?
- With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
- Arensberg was not the only visitor to be perplexed by a country where, he noted, ‘a puritanical morality’ coexisted with ‘the hilarity of the race meeting.’
- This is progressive rock at its most puritanical. Times, Sunday Times