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Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice

Insular in one's views, opinions or outlook

Strict or exacting in standards

Fastidious and hard to please

Very plain in style or appearance

Serious, grave or solemn in nature

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Adjective

Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice

schoolmistressy

prim and proper

stick-in-the-mud

self-disciplined

of the old school

self-abnegating

holier-than-thou

goody-two-shoes

self-restrained

self-sacrificing

politically correct

goody two-shoes

behind the times

socially acceptable

undemonstrative

uncommunicative

keeping people at arm's length

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“Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives.”

Adjective

Insular in one's views, opinions or outlook

dyed-in-the-wool

ultra-conservative

self-opinionated

unsophisticated

individualistic

set in one's ways

unaccommodating

ultraconservative

paleoconservative

traditionalistic

archconservative

neighbourhood^UK

neighborhood^US

set in your ways

set in one's opinions

fixed in one's views

unchallengeable

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Adjective

Strict or exacting in standards

self-opinionated

desensitized^US

desensitised^UK

take-no-prisoners

not giving an inch

dyed-in-the-wool

lacking compassion

with a heart of stone

lacking sentiment

as tough as old boots

toughened by experience

as hard as nails

unchallengeable

bound and determined

solid as a rock

holding fixed views

standing one's ground

sticking to one's guns

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Adjective

Fastidious and hard to please

over-particular

difficult to please

impossible to please

pass-remarkable

over-fastidious

easily disgusted

knows what's what

ear to the ground

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Adjective

Very plain in style or appearance

unsophisticated

without ornamentation

straightforward

without ornament

rough and ready

rough-and-tumble

rough-and-ready

pure and simple

cobbled together

thrown together

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Adjective

Serious, grave or solemn in nature

of great import

no laughing matter

of significance

of great importance

of great consequence

uncommunicative

strictly business

earth-shattering

with a long face

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

unfavourable^UK

in the doldrums

disadvantageous

ill-humoured^UK

full of hardship

given to looking on the black side

full of despair

discombobulated

looking on the black side

bound and determined

poverty-stricken

sick as a parrot

having the blahs

having blue devils

singing the blues

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