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Definition of puritanical in English: puritanicaladjective pjʊərɪˈtanɪk(ə)lˌpjʊrəˈtænək(ə)l Having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex. his puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation Example sentencesExamples - In this respect, it is fair to say that just as Epicurus was hardly epicurean, Protestants and Puritans were much less puritanical than is often supposed.
- Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives.
- Sallinen was born at Narmes, the son of a tailor who belonged to the puritanical religious sect of the Hihhulit.
- I'm sure there are those down here who just see me as a Scot with a Calvinist streak and a puritanical attitude.
- I think she got scared about these - she would say to me that there was a puritanical streak in America that can become so aggressive, and she always feared that, to come back.
- Africans have quite our prim, puritanical attitude towards extra - marital sex.
- That puritanical attitude often carries with it a lot of hypocrisy.
- Flimsy storylines concentrate on chaste boy-girl relationships, with hip-grinding dance numbers providing enough sex to titillate the audience without upsetting India's puritanical film censors.
- My gut is that tough-on-crime conservatives would rather see their puritanical views on drugs written into the Constitution.
- It preserved those men who were too drunk or too fearful or too puritanical or too homely or too traditional or too stiffly macho to try out any of those fun new gadgets or practices.
- Temperance was inspired by evangelical Christianity and puritanical moralism.
- Members tend to be puritanical in moral teachings and to disapprove of Sufism.
- They read a caution against supervisor-employee relationships as a puritanical ban on interoffice romance, while a call to report improper behavior was taken as an invitation to rat on co-workers.
- Crowley was raised a member of the Plymouth Brethren and his over-reaction to that puritanical brand of religion is fairly evident throughout his work, hence ‘The Great Beast’.
- The new building steers the straits between meticulous restoration and furious demolition, refusing a puritanical stance towards the glass-cased bibelot.
- Arensberg was not the only visitor to be perplexed by a country where, he noted, ‘a puritanical morality’ coexisted with ‘the hilarity of the race meeting.’
- Despite their antagonism towards religion and ‘bourgeois morality’, the communists had a puritanical attitude to sex.
- They think our attempts to legislate morality are barbaric, puritanical and doomed to failure.
- Is the baby boomer electorate so puritanical that they would punish progressive politicians who voiced support for liberalizing or legalizing intoxicants, or simply marijuana?
- Once again the men broke all the rules with no consequences, while the women were held to puritanical, rigid standards and expectations, all the while being subjected to harassment and resentment.
- It is disheartening to realize, nearly twenty years later, that this is still the case, and that what passes as avant-garde criticism today is even more puritanical than what comes out of the academic mainstream.
- It's about time we abandoned this puritanical attitude toward sex.
- By time, this puritanical attitude has fortunately changed and the opera is now unanimously regarded as a total masterpiece.
- This theory makes perfect sense and plays to our puritanical prejudice that fat, fast food and television are innately damaging to our humanity.
- This and other writings inspired a puritanical movement of religious devotion that came to be known as Jansenism.
- Scott called himself an atheist, but he believed in a type of karma, leftover, puritanical guilt from a strict, Protestant upbringing.
- It just shows that those endless puritanical bromides about the perils of fixating on individual designers (in magazine profiles and monographs) are wasted breath.
- ‘Their willingness to loosen puritanical laws on dress and public behavior have created the illusion of freedom,’ he says.
- Compare that to the United States with our puritanical attitudes toward sex and federal funding for abstinence-only education.
- On the other hand, the Wahhabi movement in Arabia in the eighteenth century represents both a strict, puritanical reading of the works, and a rejection of the itjihad tradition, considered to be responsible for internal decay.
- Throw in a whiff of elitism, and you've got the perfect puritanical, messianic jerk.
- But beyond puritanical squeamishness - and the native instinct of all bureaucracies to create policies upon policies - employers have good reason to outlaw porn.
- The other great influence on Lane's life was his mother's puritanical religious convictions.
- The very English and very puritanical Founding Fathers proposed the principles of religious liberty as a mechanism to protect religion from the pollution of the state.
- Kirk paints a vivid, nuanced, and empathic portrait of a tightly knit Danish fishing community whose members belong to the Inner Mission, a puritanical movement within the Church of Denmark.
- The hero, as such, played by Edward Woodward, is a rather prissy, puritanical character, and a devout Christian.
- With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
- We're getting pretty annoyed by this puritanical attitude that sexuality is evil.
- You have been intimidated by their moralising self-righteousness, brow-beaten by their puritanical spartanism, seduced by their appointment-diary ethics.
- From the start, the concept of parading women on stage - fully clothed or not - has always been a contentious issue, making Miss World a prime target for negative media attention and the scorn of puritanical groups.
Synonyms moralistic, pietistic, strait-laced, tight-laced, stuffy, starchy, prissy, prudish, puritan, prim, priggish, Victorian, schoolmarmish, schoolmistressy, old-maidish, narrow-minded, censorious, sententious austere, severe, spartan, ascetic, hair-shirt, abstemious informal goody-goody rare Grundyish
Rhymesbotanical, Brahmanical, mechanical, sanicle, tyrannical Definition of puritanical in US English: puritanicaladjectiveˌpyo͝orəˈtanək(ə)lˌpjʊrəˈtænək(ə)l Practicing or affecting strict religious or moral behavior. 〈常贬〉（宗教或道德行为）清教徒的；一本正经的；道学先生的 his puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation Example sentencesExamples - Throw in a whiff of elitism, and you've got the perfect puritanical, messianic jerk.
- Arensberg was not the only visitor to be perplexed by a country where, he noted, ‘a puritanical morality’ coexisted with ‘the hilarity of the race meeting.’
- By time, this puritanical attitude has fortunately changed and the opera is now unanimously regarded as a total masterpiece.
- The other great influence on Lane's life was his mother's puritanical religious convictions.
- In this respect, it is fair to say that just as Epicurus was hardly epicurean, Protestants and Puritans were much less puritanical than is often supposed.
- Crowley was raised a member of the Plymouth Brethren and his over-reaction to that puritanical brand of religion is fairly evident throughout his work, hence ‘The Great Beast’.
- It just shows that those endless puritanical bromides about the perils of fixating on individual designers (in magazine profiles and monographs) are wasted breath.
- Scott called himself an atheist, but he believed in a type of karma, leftover, puritanical guilt from a strict, Protestant upbringing.
- Sallinen was born at Narmes, the son of a tailor who belonged to the puritanical religious sect of the Hihhulit.
- I'm sure there are those down here who just see me as a Scot with a Calvinist streak and a puritanical attitude.
- Flimsy storylines concentrate on chaste boy-girl relationships, with hip-grinding dance numbers providing enough sex to titillate the audience without upsetting India's puritanical film censors.
- This theory makes perfect sense and plays to our puritanical prejudice that fat, fast food and television are innately damaging to our humanity.
- It is disheartening to realize, nearly twenty years later, that this is still the case, and that what passes as avant-garde criticism today is even more puritanical than what comes out of the academic mainstream.
- The hero, as such, played by Edward Woodward, is a rather prissy, puritanical character, and a devout Christian.
- With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
- Members tend to be puritanical in moral teachings and to disapprove of Sufism.
- ‘Their willingness to loosen puritanical laws on dress and public behavior have created the illusion of freedom,’ he says.
- You have been intimidated by their moralising self-righteousness, brow-beaten by their puritanical spartanism, seduced by their appointment-diary ethics.
- Compare that to the United States with our puritanical attitudes toward sex and federal funding for abstinence-only education.
- They think our attempts to legislate morality are barbaric, puritanical and doomed to failure.
- Is the baby boomer electorate so puritanical that they would punish progressive politicians who voiced support for liberalizing or legalizing intoxicants, or simply marijuana?
- They read a caution against supervisor-employee relationships as a puritanical ban on interoffice romance, while a call to report improper behavior was taken as an invitation to rat on co-workers.
- It preserved those men who were too drunk or too fearful or too puritanical or too homely or too traditional or too stiffly macho to try out any of those fun new gadgets or practices.
- The new building steers the straits between meticulous restoration and furious demolition, refusing a puritanical stance towards the glass-cased bibelot.
- The very English and very puritanical Founding Fathers proposed the principles of religious liberty as a mechanism to protect religion from the pollution of the state.
- I think she got scared about these - she would say to me that there was a puritanical streak in America that can become so aggressive, and she always feared that, to come back.
- From the start, the concept of parading women on stage - fully clothed or not - has always been a contentious issue, making Miss World a prime target for negative media attention and the scorn of puritanical groups.
- Africans have quite our prim, puritanical attitude towards extra - marital sex.
- Once again the men broke all the rules with no consequences, while the women were held to puritanical, rigid standards and expectations, all the while being subjected to harassment and resentment.
- On the other hand, the Wahhabi movement in Arabia in the eighteenth century represents both a strict, puritanical reading of the works, and a rejection of the itjihad tradition, considered to be responsible for internal decay.
- It's about time we abandoned this puritanical attitude toward sex.
- We're getting pretty annoyed by this puritanical attitude that sexuality is evil.
- Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives.
- Kirk paints a vivid, nuanced, and empathic portrait of a tightly knit Danish fishing community whose members belong to the Inner Mission, a puritanical movement within the Church of Denmark.
- That puritanical attitude often carries with it a lot of hypocrisy.
- But beyond puritanical squeamishness - and the native instinct of all bureaucracies to create policies upon policies - employers have good reason to outlaw porn.
- My gut is that tough-on-crime conservatives would rather see their puritanical views on drugs written into the Constitution.
- Temperance was inspired by evangelical Christianity and puritanical moralism.
- Despite their antagonism towards religion and ‘bourgeois morality’, the communists had a puritanical attitude to sex.
- This and other writings inspired a puritanical movement of religious devotion that came to be known as Jansenism.
Synonyms moralistic, pietistic, strait-laced, tight-laced, stuffy, starchy, prissy, prudish, puritan, prim, priggish, victorian, schoolmarmish, schoolmistressy, old-maidish, narrow-minded, censorious, sententious
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