Thesaurus / puritanical
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After the complete failure and repeal of alcohol prohibition in 1933, America’s puritanical conservatives and government agencies set their sights on drugs.
CHELSEA HANDLER: MARIJUANA CRIMINALIZATION HAS ALWAYS HURT PEOPLE OF COLOR THE MOST. THE TIME FOR REFORM IS NOWCHELSEA HANDLERAPRIL 19, 2021TIMEThe puritanical party was by far the fewer in numbers, for which two excellent reasons might be given.
PEVERIL OF THE PEAKSIR WALTER SCOTTBut at the time about which we are writing there was in Boston a distinguished family of puritanical ministers named Mather.
IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGYST. JOHN D. (ST. JOHN DRELINCOURT) SEYMOURHis preaching was plain, scriptural, and experimental, in the good old puritanical strain.
MEMORIALS OF THE INDEPENDENT CHURCHES IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRETHOMAS COLEMANIn contrast to his predecessor he connived at some irregularities of discipline in the Puritanical clergy.
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY [2ND ED.].HARTLEY WITHERSThere was in society, though it was not strait-laced or puritanical, a general standard of "good form."
THE ENGLISH NOVELGEORGE SAINTSBURYOf course, one should be cautious here, so as not to seem merely puritanical or Pecksniffian.
LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPORTER LANDER MACCLINTOCKThe old cavalier shrugged his shoulders at this evidence of the Puritanical education of his son.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 57, NO. 354, APRIL 1845VARIOUSA fine little creature, quite stylish, but very puritanical.
BAD HUGHMARY JANE HOLMESThe Englishman criticizes in others precisely what he does himself; Puritanical talk covers a sinful heart.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF NATIONSG.E. PARTRIDGEWORDS RELATED TO PURITANICAL
- Victorian
- affected
- aristocratic
- artificial
- bluenosed
- chivalrous
- civil
- confined
- courteous
- courtly
- cultivated
- distingué
- elegant
- fashionable
- formal
- graceful
- hollow
- intolerant
- la-di-da
- mannerly
- noble
- ostentatious
- polished
- polite
- pompous
- precious
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prim and proper
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- refined
- respectable
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
- Victorian
- blue-nose
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- choosy
- cleanly
- conventional
- correct
- dapper
- decorous
- demure
- fastidious
- formal
- genteel
- good
- goody-goody
- nice
- nit-picking
- orderly
- overmodest
- polite
- precise
- priggish
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- rigid
- shipshape
- spick-and-span
- spruce
- stickling
- stiff
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- tidy
- uncluttered
- upright
- well-groomed
- wooden
- Victorian
- affected
- artificial
- austere
- bigoted
- conventional
- demure
- fastidious
- finicky
- genteel
- illiberal
- mincing
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- offish
- overexact
- overmodest
- overnice
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- proper
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- severe
- simpering
- square
- squeamish
- starchy
- stern
- stiff
- stilted
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- uptight
- austere
- dead set
- disciplinary
- dour
- draconian
- exacting
- firm
- forbidding
- grim
- hard
- hard-boiled
- harsh
- iron-fisted
- no-nonsense
- oppressive
- picky
- prudish
- punctilious
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- set
- severe
- square
- stern
- stickling
- straight
- strait-laced
- stringent
- stuffy
- tough
- unpermissive
- unsparing
- uptight
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