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puritanical

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of puritanical

given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals

some of the state laws concerning sexual behavior are vestiges of a more puritanical time and are rarely, if ever, enforced

Synonyms of puritanical

bluenosed, nice-nelly, prim, prudish, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

Words Related to puritanical

priggish, staid, stuffy

genteel, proper, refined

decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuous

Near Antonyms of puritanical

liberated, permissive

bad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, lecherous, lickerish, loose, prurient, wicked

skanky [slang], slatternly, sleazy, sluttish, slutty, trampy

debauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted

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