Words similar to puritanical

Example sentences for: puritanical

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It's the most jittery of periods, both exhibitionistic and paranoid, and David Berkowitz--the self-proclaimed Son of Sam--emerges from the ocean of decadence like a toxic monster, a puritanical avenger.
She has a puritanical sensibility.
Only certain (puritanical) segments of the public were indignant at the stars' behaviour off screen: most drank it up.
That writer's puritanical heirs today rail against the verb fax, even though they likely think nothing of cabling, telexing , or the dialing and ringing involved in telephoning .
I have been told that is an old-fashioned, puritanical attitude.