puritanic
- s morally rigorous and strict
puritanic distaste for alcohol
she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
- He lived in almost puritanic simplicity with his mother, enjoyed the fleshpots of Brazil and Europe with his father.
- Elia Kazan may have had puritanic motives, but look at the lewd billboard and newspaper ballyhoo that sings the seductive praises of Baby Doll.
- Eldest son of a poor Idaho farmer and his puritanic wife, Vridar grew up in a shack where food was scarce, comfort unheard-of, with no companions but his younger brother and .