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very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
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Puritanical
has a plethora of syllables.
So is cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine. Does it mean:
| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells. |
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
Example Sentences
- There is nothing unreal or puritanical in their exposure of a frank, grown-up amour.
- The new book addresses at length the game's outlaw cachet, as well as its stink in some of our more puritanical noses.
- Americans aren't puritanical they schizo/hypocritical.
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