Words similar to puritan

Example sentences for: puritan

How can you use “puritan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A Gallant character who cultivates decadent aristocratic airs or tries too hard to hold on to Puritan freshness is at best a self-punishing neurotic, at worst a fool.
Legal gambling brings out the latent puritan in many Americans.
The outrage it has prompted isn't the Puritan kind; it's more like legitimate revulsion at watching a blowhard pervert people's lives in the name of "larger dramatic truths."
Beyond the suspicion lay a Puritan sense that this was all dreadfully wrong.
The puritan crusaders of the North and the alienated populists of the South may share common political enemies, but little else.