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.
Perhaps the most notable quality of the Christian sex business is that it is evangelical, not puritanical.
Apart from the tiresome degradation of society arguments from the puritanical, everyone is familiar with this word in its many forms.
She has a puritanical sensibility.
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 .