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very serious about good behaviour; clear and exact

authoritarian

draconian exacting harsh rigid rigorous scrupulous severe stern stringent tough austere dead set disciplinary dour firm forbidding grim hard hard-boiled iron-fisted no-nonsense oppressive picky prudish punctilious puritanical set square stickling straight strait-laced stuffy unpermissive unsparing uptight
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1) (of a person, behaviour) severely moral and strict (austere)

2) (of) a person who is strict in morals and who considers many kinds of fun and pleasure as sinful (puritan)

3) strict enforcement (of rules etc); harsh; severe conditions (rigour)

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