See puritanical in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form:
bluenosed, genteel, old-maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian. Idiom: prim and proper. See plain
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