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puritanical

English

  1. 🔊 of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
  2. 🔊 morally rigorous and strict
    “puritanic distaste for alcohol”
  3. 🔊 exaggeratedly proper
    “my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts”

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