Puritanical

That form of moral dyspepsia known as the Puritanical conscience was his by right of inheritance.

From Place to Place 1910

Any suggestion that there might be too much of it can be represented to him as "Puritanical" or as betraying a "lack of humour".

"There are no moral or immoral jokes. A joke is either funny or it is not. That is all." Ann Althouse 2008

Winchester externally; but under Robert Horne the whole diocese suffered terribly through the "Puritanical" views of its bishop.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912

And so it was that he let me go, with pity for my youth and sex, but a knowledge that I was in good hands, and an inborn, perhaps "Puritanical" faith, that the Lord of all right would see to me.

Erema — My Father's Sin 1862

That kind of Puritanical work ethic has gotten me where I am in my career.

LKH Blog 2008

[ '' Puritanical '' is not a compliment -- at least not so far.

Patt Morrison: Paper, Scissors, Plymouth Rock 2009

"Though Christian objections to alcohol and tobacco may be called 'Puritanical' by some, these stances are actually of much more recent vintage.

American Thinker 2009

Just be prepared to call it a night early—most everything in Boston still shutters by a Puritanical 2 a.m.

Boston: Culture Pop 2011

We Americans see these writers and artists as courageous and curious, artistic, open-minded, passionate, undisciplined, and rowdy -- even a bit bohemian for taking a walk on the wild side by dropping out of the New World to experience and explore the Old World, which seemed much less inhibited and exotic than the Puritanical United States.

Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Books on Paris and the French Beth Arnold 2011

We Americans see these writers and artists as courageous and curious, artistic, open-minded, passionate, undisciplined, and rowdy -- even a bit bohemian for taking a walk on the wild side by dropping out of the New World to experience and explore the Old World, which seemed much less inhibited and exotic than the Puritanical United States.

Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Books on Paris and the French Beth Arnold 2011