0 believing or involving the belief that it is important to work hard and control yourself, and that pleasure is wrong or unnecessary:
She is very puritanical about sex.
He rebelled against his puritanical upbringing.
1 having standards of moral behavior that forbid many pleasures:
I think it is merely that these whisky bottles raise our puritanical hackles from time to time.
Many of those it libelled could not afford to bring an action—as the prurient, puritanical editor well knew.
The intellectual progressives have a puritanical attitude to reductions in taxation.
I am not puritanical in matters of art or of literature, or anything of that kind.
Why is it that we suddenly get a puritanical reaction of this character?
We must stop looking with such a puritanical eye at those who increase their incomes at all levels.
They are puritanical people who want to inflict their view of how to raise children on other people.
I do not take a puritanical view of private expenditure.
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