The word 'puritanical' is correct and usable in written English.
Generally, it is used to describe someone or something that adheres to or is influenced by a strict moral code. Example sentence: He was a puritanical man, shunning any kind of entertainment or leisure activities.
This was borne out in their frankly unhinged attacks on Planned Parenthood, the HPV vaccine, insurance coverage of contraception and, as I discussed last week, the puritanical mood they created that encouraged President Obama to restrict access to Plan B, or the morning-after pill, none of which have much to do with abortion and everything to do with women's temerity to have sex.
Although actually we do have a form of royalty: our pop princesses, ie Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, et al. To enter this group, one must follow a precise trajectory: 1) Start out in show biz very young; 2) Urged on by your management, prematurely start exuding sexuality; 3) Begin partying in public; 4) Be brought down by a spiteful, suddenly puritanical media; 5) Enter rehab.
The madcap gaiety of Jim Sharman's production seemed at odds with the Court's sober, puritanical image.
Are America's puritanical roots to blame?
Saudi officials argue that jihadists are deviants; the Saudi version of Islam, though puritanical, requires obedience to the ruler.
But Mr Jospin, whose Protestant background smacks, to the French, of puritanical rigour, may keep his word.
Yet Britons take a more puritanical view of their public servants than Americans even when their corporate governance is less cavalier than Mr Blair's might seem.
Such people should only be killed after being tried in a Saudi court and only after being given a chance to mend their ways.Saudis are used to chilling pronouncements from the country's 700 religious judges, all of whom are schooled in the puritanical Wahhabist interpretation of Islam.
Since he became prime minister, those values have looked increasingly puritanical.
After converting at a local mosque, he kept guzzling beer for a while; the switch to a strict, puritanical path came during an early brush with jail.Some things are obvious: in a lonely, fractured world, the bonds of the ummah, a global chain of "brothers" who agree on ultimate matters, had great appeal to Mr Storm.
George Brown, Wilson's number two, was a less puritanical figure than his modern namesake, Gordon, although they could both throw a fair share of tantrums.
