Difference between Puritanical and Straitlaced

PURITANICAL vs STRAITLACED: 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.

Jim Dial, the very straitlaced anchor, opens a bar, and it turns out to be a gay bar.
Don Corleone, notoriously straitlaced in such matters, though his stout wife was screaming joyfully with the others, disappeared tactfully into the house.
But survival, in her straitlaced milieu, also means ossification, it means surrender to convention and a convenient degree of unfeeling.
In most regards, San Diego is pretty straitlaced about crime and punishment, but it does occasionally fall for a bank robber.
Straitlaced as to you hear me this would be excited by the financial transactions.
The first one is a little more straitlaced and straightforward.