puritanical

[US]/pjʊərɪ'tænɪk(ə)l/
[UK]/'pjʊrə'tænɪkl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. крайне строгий в морали, напоминающий пуритан.

Example Sentences

a puritanical dislike of self-indulgence

пуританское неприятие самопотакания

he was an austere man, with a rigidly puritanical outlook.

он был суровым человеком с жестко пуританскими взглядами.

blue laws; the puritan work ethic; puritanic distaste for alcohol; she was anything but puritanical in her behavior.

законы блю; трудовая этика пуритан; пуританская неприязнь к алкоголю; она была абсолютно непуританкой в своем поведении.

9. blue laws; the puritan work ethic; puritanic distaste for alcohol; she was anything but puritanical in her behavior.

9. законы блю; трудовая этика пуритан; пуританская неприязнь к алкоголю; она была абсолютно непуританкой в своем поведении.

Puritanical societies for “the suppression of vice” encouraged punitive laws against disorderly houses and streetwalking.

Пуританские общества для «подавления порока» поощряли карательные законы против беспорядочных домов и уличной проституции.

puritanical views on sexuality

пуританские взгляды на сексуальность

puritanical attitude towards pleasure

пуританское отношение к удовольствиям

a puritanical work ethic

пуританская трудовая этика

Real-world Examples

But some more puritanical hackers have turned vigilante, trying to disrupt LulzSec.

Но некоторые более пуританские хакеры стали самозваными, пытаясь сорвать деятельность LulzSec.

Source: The Economist - International

It is not just drinkers who are benefiting from a loosening of puritanical regulations around America.

Не только пьющие выигрывают от ослабления пуританских правил в Америке.

Source: The Economist - International

He and Parliament, which was largely puritanical, used to fight all the time about his military spending.

Он и Парламент, который был в основном пуританским, постоянно спорили о его военных расходах.

Source: Crash Course in Drama

The Tories, unlike the Labour Party (still puritanical and out of power since 1951), had woken up to this.

Консерваторы, в отличие от Лейбористской партии (все еще пуританской и не у власти с 1951 года), проснулись и осознали это.

Source: The Economist - Arts

" A lot of them grow pretty puritanical" .

Source: The Long Farewell (Part 1)

Civil War now fully underway, the puritanical Parliament used the conflict as an excuse to ban theater, mostly on religious grounds.

Source: Crash Course in Drama

It was this strong family feeling which kept him a church-goer and a religious, even puritanical man in gay and pleasure-loving Paris.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 2

Some of these were new scions of Protestantism, with Puritanical groups emerging who had doctrinal and theological differences with the Puritans.

Source: Character Profile

One thing one notices when he writes, if he looks directly at the common people especially in the big towns, is that they are not puritanical.

Source: Literature

A day of fasting is not for me just a puritanical device for denying oneself a pleasure, but rather a way of anticipating a rare moment of supreme indulgence.

Source: New English Course 6

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