Exaggeratedly proper.
Synonyms
Examples for "blue"
Examples for "blue"
1
Semihard; blue; goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound.
2
A sea of blue state police cars stood motionless ahead of them.
3
For example, left hand to blue crimp, right foot to green pinch.
4
The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue.
5
The wind blows soft; the sky is blue; the sun shines bright
1
And the little puritan of fifteen heard the voice of his God:
2
A man who had the reputation of a saint too; a puritan.
3
But despite its puritan bent, ManServants also represents a long-overdue role reversal.
4
The puritan soldiers destroyed the profusion of statues that decorated this church.
5
Was Zhang so anxious to maintain the communist puritan image of Guan?
1
The rigour in England is mere puritanic hypocrisy, shortsightedness and racial self-esteem.
2
In this instance, the populace are more puritanic than the magistrate.
3
Richard had long ceased to regard these matters from a strictly puritanic standpoint.
4
The primitive Church was very puritanic concerning the Christian spirit.
5
His political zeal was a frenzy; and his religion was deeply tinged with puritanic gloom.
1
Difficult, of course, for one of my naturally puritanical bent, but possible.
2
Many young people are attracted to Salafism, a puritanical branch of Islam.
3
I am sometimes inclined to be quite puritanical when defining the western.
4
Too much tolerance too fast can produce a puritanical or fascist backlash.
5
The character of the kirk was that of a democratic, puritanical theocracy.
6
Maybe, we move a little too quickly to label the Americans puritanical.
7
God's not being prudish or puritanical in forbidding sex outside of marriage.
8
Wonder where she got her ideas in that cramped, puritanical little place?
9
Chicago, the musical, has a bitter, puritanical feel beneath its glossy surface.
10
Now listen to reason, my too-good child, and don't be so puritanical.
11
He'd always struck her as a bit too politically puritanical, however.
12
His view is both puritanical and tormented: youthful idealism often is.
13
It seemed to me to be a severe and puritanical point of view.
14
They're following the example of our puritanical cousins in the US.
15
Roy had always taken an intolerant and puritanical view of pigeons.
16
More than a few puritanical American journalists have been pressing him about it.
