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plural puritans
(often disapproving) A puritanical person. quotations examples
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.
2016 August 5, Janet Street-Porter, “Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it”, in The Independent
comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan
(often disapproving) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex. examples