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Adjective: puritanical  `pyûri'tanikul
  1. Of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
     
  2. Exaggeratedly proper
    - priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
     
  3. Morally rigorous and strict
    "she was anything but puritanical in her behaviour"
    - blue, puritanic

See also: nonindulgent, proper, puritan, puritanically, Puritanism, strict

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