"puritanical" in the adjective sense
1. puritanical
of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
2. priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
exaggeratedly proper
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
3. blue, puritanic, puritanical
morally rigorous and strict
"puritanic distaste for alcohol"
"she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
"blue laws"
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