Words similar to puritanical

Example sentences for: puritanical

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

She's right, for example, that sex education now is a bad compromise between puritanical shame and a cold, clinical detachment.
The movie reminds us, once again, how topsy-turvy this puritanical culture really is.
She has a puritanical sensibility.
Only certain (puritanical) segments of the public were indignant at the stars' behaviour off screen: most drank it up.
Lew Miller's decision had been a practical one: he felt it foolish to sacrifice the sales of many thousands of copies of the dictionary in the Bible Belt and other puritanical bastions of conservatism like Texas and California merely for the sake of a “couple of four-letter words.”