puritanical

Example Sentences

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It highlighted societal changes in Saudi Arabia that allowed edgy American comedians to perform in a country long dismissed as irredeemably puritanical and regressive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The Jesus Army church recruited thousands of people to live in close-knit, puritanical communities in Northamptonshire, London and the Midlands.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025

And two justices have already aligned themselves with a sweeping interpretation of its puritanical prohibitions.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2024

Missouri’s also a state whose highway billboard signs tell a much stranger story than the puritanical hubris of its legislators suggest.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2023

Into the doors and into the soft lights I go, silently, past the rows of puritanical benches straight and torturous, finding that to which I am assigned and bending my body to its agony.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison