How to Use puritanical in a Sentence

puritanical

adjective

• The thugs take an interest in the girl, but are wary of their puritanical boss.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• Susan was naïve to the point of being puritanical about drugs, say her friends.
  — Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
• Many writers in Paris in the 1930s took aim at our puritanical society and tried to open up ways of telling the truth about men and women and lust.
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019
• Are you vexed by how puritanical the country is getting about books and art?
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
• To the shock of no one, this puritanical line of thinking has already claimed its first victim.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
• And then this puritanical force came in and replaced it.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2021
• The crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, is trying to make the kingdom less puritanical.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• But there was a strong backlash against #MeToo, which was dismissed as a puritanical witch-hunt by the likes of Catherine Deneuve – and the same thing is happening again.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 7 Jan. 2024
• The suspension of Dave Weigel for a retweet reflects a puritanical mindset on the left that is only getting worse over time.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 7 June 2022
• The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban’s puritanical rule over Afghanistan.
  — Ebrahim Noroozi, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
• And in a puritanical twist, Donda is only available for sale and on streaming in its clean version.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
• In the puritanical form of writing that Whit teaches and that Jerry adopts, the motivation to write is simply the writing.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
• In the puritanical form of writing that Whit teaches, and that Jerry adopts, the motivation to write is simply the writing.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• His puritanical decrees sucked the joy out of life as surely as mosquitoes suck blood.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Well, it’s time to escape the puritanical garden tended by Apple and Google.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2019
• In the puritanical form of writing Whit teaches and Jerry adopts, the motivation to write is simply the writing.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 21 Sep. 2017
• With the militants bent on imposing a puritanical form of Islam, the family packed their bags and fled.
  — Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• Compared to the chaos outdoors, the house itself possessed a surprising air of puritanical tidiness, even his study, which was bursting with books.
  — László F. Földényi, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• There is a chance that Western democracies will overcome the current waves of right-wing populism and left-wing moralism, but the prospects will be much better if the Elect can learn to temper their puritanical zeal.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• In puritanical America, the taboo lingers more than in England.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• A government officer with just a shade less puritanical integrity than Meigs could have made a mint for himself and his cronies, with the needs of the soldiers in the field coming a distant second.
  — Allen Guelzo, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2016
• In this way, television’s most racy show is also its most puritanical.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2023
• City of Boston For all of its cultural and academic appeal, Boston has long been weighed down by its puritanical late-night scene.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• With television’s new proximity to the more puritanical uses of our devices, the archetype of the beached sluggard on the couch has been smuggled into a portrait of diligence.
  — Laurence Scott, The New Yorker, 6 July 2016
• What’s a guy to do whose free-spirited life doesn’t adhere to puritanical normative hours?
  — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 18 Oct. 2017
• She’s clipped, judgmental and unsmiling—there hasn’t been a figure of such puritanical disapproval since Amy Adams in The Master.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
• The root of it is our puritanical Calvinist attitudes about pleasure.
  — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 22 June 2020
• Europeans can no longer snicker about the American puritanical streak, the old litmus test for our politicians.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
• The French media were having a ball mocking the puritanical Americans.
  — Thomas J. Baker, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
• The world is probably not much improved — and may be much harmed — when the righteous take a puritanical stance toward the views and associations of teenagers who work at Mojo Burrito.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024