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Puritan means (usually derogatory) A puritanical person..
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/ˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.tən/ · noun
(usually derogatory) A puritanical person..
These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.
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Puritan means (usually derogatory) A puritanical person..
Common synonyms include prude, puritanical, blue, nonindulgent.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
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