Puritanical and Trampy

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Puritanical adjective - Given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals.

Usage example: some of the state laws concerning sexual behavior are vestiges of a more puritanical time and are rarely, if ever, enforced

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Trampy is an antonym for puritanical.

Nearby Words: puritan, puritanism, puritanic

Trampy adjective - Having loose sexual morals.

Usage example: an author who mostly wrote hard-boiled fiction about macho men and trampy women

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Puritanical is an antonym for trampy.

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