strict morals
Unbending ethical code
Strict morals are rigidly held principles about right and wrong, typically emphasizing self-discipline, sexual propriety, and adherence to traditional values.
The phrase often implies inflexibility or puritanical standards: She was raised with strict morals and never drank or swore.
Someone with strict morals may judge others harshly for behavior they consider improper.
- puritanicalExcessively strict about morals
- Victorian valuesStrict morality of 1800s Britain
- righteousMorally good, justified
- uprightVertical or morally sound
- straight and narrowMorally correct conduct
virtuous · by the book · prudish · strait-laced · no nonsense · austere · pious · fire and brimstone · disciplined · abstinence · clean living · chastity · temperance · rectitude · scruples · conscience · commandments · judgment
- Puritanismpuritanism, prudery, prudishness, strait-laced, rectitude
- English PuritanismPuritanism, Puritans, godly, piety, plain dress
- virtuesintegrity, honesty, justice, courage, fairness
- colonial faithPilgrims, Puritans, Calvinism, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony
strict moralsloose morals
Lack of ethical restraint
moral relativism · situational ethics · permissiveness · anything goes · laxity
strict moralsamorality
Lacking ethical concern
immorality · moral bankruptcy · unprincipled · unscrupulous · shamelessness
strict moralshedonism
Pursuit of gratification
libertinism · licentiousness · debauchery · immorality · decadence
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