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straitlaced::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, tight-laced, victorian |
my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts.
Examples of straitlaced
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She was about 60 years old and seemed as straitlaced as a Sunday school teacher.
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Like Curtis, the straitlaced Asian-American attorney, scrubbing the toilet bowl.
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The tragedy fuels the cop's turn from a straitlaced officer to an avenging force.
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The straitlaced Lion State is working hard, and spending big, to dispel that image.
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In some ways, the two are the antithesis of straitlaced federal bureaucrats.
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They are worried that the straitlaced New York Stock Exchange would object.
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That straitlaced school required fancy uniforms and five foreign languages.
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The foreign men who appear at all do so as shadowy, straitlaced figures.
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Rivers then went on to material that would have given the straitlaced showman apoplexy.
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- Priggish: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- Precise, over nice, puritanical.
- Upholding the proprieties, prudish
