A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum.
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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 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.
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 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?
6 You are a puritan and in your heart you despise sensual pleasures.
7 Probably king, prelate and puritan , all found their own account in it.
8 You embody for me all the things my puritan grandmothers stood for.
9 Unlike John the Baptist, He was neither a teetotaller nor a puritan .
10 His puritan conscience was enraged at petty thefts, petty forgeries, petty larcenies.
11 For, ladies and gentlemen, while we are pious, we are not puritan .
12 She hath read me such lessons as none but a puritan could.'
13 Miss Mary, with an anxious forehead under her puritan hair, said nothing.
14 Aldrich's mother was a Bostonian puritan who did not approve of actresses.
15 Of all false doctrines that of the sour-faced, joyless puritan is the falsest.
16 She was of the puritan temper that loves to scatter irrefutable moral logic.
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