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Significats de strait-laced en anglès

Exaggeratedly proper.

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Ús de strait-laced en anglès
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No one, I tell you, not even the most strait-laced or censorious.
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Old Mr. Cayley, though not the least strait-laced, was a religious man.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
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Is a strait-laced negative from the Commission to echo back his neigh?
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Was he a strait-laced prig who disapproved of dancing, do you mean?
The Lamp of Fate
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Except maybe a strait-laced, touched-by-sadness investigator and a beautiful and recently fired broker.
The Irish Times
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Adler recalled thinking when he met Ingrassia that he seemed earnest and strait-laced.
Reuters
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Miltoun's being so extraordinarily strait-laced makes it all the more awkward.
The Patrician
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And for this he must not be thought narrow-minded, strait-laced, or unduly dignified.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
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She was a practical, strait-laced woman who cared little for her daughter's dreams.
The hangman's daughter
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Is my liberty to be restricted by the narrow scruples of 'strait-laced' Christians?
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinth...
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Why, Parson, old man, you mustn't be too strait-laced out here.
Under Fire
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I have mentioned Havana, and you mustn't think me strait-laced.
Travels With My Aunt
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A straight-backed, strait-laced military man, working with the Griffin's enemies?
Hell to pay
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Is singer Adam Lambert just too sexy for strait-laced Singapore?
Reuters
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Maybe I'm wrong, and I often feel that I am strait-laced about such things.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
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Be not governed by your father's strait-laced and puritanical opinions.
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
Strait-laced a través del temps