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• a  of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
• s  exaggeratedly proper
• s  morally rigorous and strict
  she was anything but puritanical in her behavior

• One after another, he called in groups of Saudi imams, teachers, journalists and businessmen and warned them against taking Saudi Arabia's puritanical brand of religion, known as .
• The oldest, the Japanese-born Issei, were reserved, puritanical people, who clung to an old country belief in hard work, personal integrity and obedience to tradition.
• I can vouch for Alan's never having had the almost puritanical discipline that Rodgers found so satisfactory in Hammerstein.

• priggish
• prim
• prissy
• prudish
• square-toed
• straitlaced
• strait-laced
• straightlaced
• straight-laced
• tight-laced
• victorian
• blue
• puritanic

News & Articles

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• Column: Fucking up
  I’ve had my fair share of parent-teacher-esque conferences over the years, during which multiple adult authority figures have brought up my use of cuss words. As far as character assassination goes, this column will probably stay on the permanent record a whole lot longer than their puritanical disapproval. But I’ll save you all your skepticism and tell you directly that I frequently cuss ...
  June 6, 2013 - The California Aggie
• Miley Cyrus is sooo totally not singing about doing ecstasy in 'We Can't Stop,' you guys
  If you're more than, say, 20 years old, chances are you don't follow the releases of Miley Cyrus ' latest singles, but her newest one, We Can't Stop , has raised some eyebrows among more puritanical radio listeners, just because she makes an apparent reference to doing X. Does ecstasy even get people angry anymore? Apparently so.
  June 5, 2013 - Tampa Bay Times

Quotes

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• Brett Ratner in Guardian Unlimited
  Hef came from a puritanical upbringing and reinvented himself to be the godfather of the sexual revolution,Ratner told the show business magazine Variety. "He also used his magazine to advocate civil rights and free speech, and put James...
• Paul Levinson in USA Today
  It sounds radical, but this is healthy for popular culture,Levinson says. "Mainstream TV has been frozen in a very puritanical position by Congress, the FCC and the Supreme Court - all who don't seem to understand the First Amendment. Sex...
• John McLaughlin in Reuters
  It stems from certain puritanical ideas about what they think jazz truly is,McLaughlin said of critics in an interview after playing at the Monterey Jazz Festival late last week.