puritanical

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It highlighted societal changes in Saudi Arabia that allowed edgy American comedians to perform in a country long dismissed as irredeemably puritanical and regressive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The Jesus Army church recruited thousands of people to live in close-knit, puritanical communities in Northamptonshire, London and the Midlands.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025

As Katharine Hepburn said in the movie, he was kind of puritanical, because those where the times back then.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2024

It’s no surprise that someone in Elster’s shoes would push a case like this one, given the court’s skepticism of some of the Lanham Act’s more puritanical provisions.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2023

Which provoked Jerry G., who was constantly having to turn half-around and bark “Shhh!” or order them, in his puritanical Okie voice, to “please pipe down back there, will you?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols