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Textual thesaurus for "puritanical"

(adj) blue, puritanic

morally rigorous and strict

the puritan work ethic; puritanic distaste for alcohol; she was anything but puritanical in her behavior


(adj) victorian, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish

exaggeratedly proper

my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts