Difference between Puritanical and Priggish

PURITANICAL vs PRIGGISH: ADJECTIVE

Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; — often used by way of reproach or contempt.
Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Puritans.
Rigorous in religious observance; marked by stern morality.
Exaggeratedly proper
Morally rigorous and strict
Of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism

Moralistic, Tight laced, Square toed, Puritanic, Nonindulgent, Blue, Proper, Victorian, Prim, Straightlaced, Prissy, Straitlaced, Priggish, Prudish, Puritan

Moralistic, Tight laced, Square toed, Puritanic, Nonindulgent, Blue, Proper, Victorian, Prim, Straightlaced, Prissy, Straitlaced, Priggish, Prudish, Puritan

There is need for a practical, problem-solving approach, not these puritanical moral expressions of outrage.
She believed in predestination, a very angry God, was puritanical to the point of OCD.
Of course, because it was mainstream art promoting libidinous pleasure, a puritanical outcry followed.
This Puritanical belief in community, once threatened, is what led him to rebel.
Pearl, which shows the perceived danger of female sexuality in a puritanical society.
Costumes and music are also low-keyed, in keeping with the Puritanical lifestyle.
With reformed theology comes a puritanical passion to purify the church.
Puritanical settlers as a foil to the concept of piracy.
We have a puritanical attitude in this country to fireworks.
The Puritans were down right Puritanical about Sunday.

They are too frivolous to be edifying, and too serious to be diverting; and they are, moreover, priggish and paradoxical and superfluous.
Ida is sweet tempered and ready for a new life; Lucille is feisty and Doris is priggish and judgmental.
An idealistic and at times priggish young man, Howell complained about officers and enlisted men who swore, drank, and ignored the Sabbath.
The most difficult part in this story is usually that of Molly, who can easily seem priggish and overly Victorian to current audiences.
The adulthood of employees priggish want to hale in, run successfully, and be a triumph in their careers.
Blackmoor manor, an oddly precocious stepdaughter, and a priggish spinster aunt who tends carnivorous plants, among others.
The outsider is at once admirable and priggish.