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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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      2
      Old Mr. Cayley, though not the least strait-laced, was a religious man.
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      3
      Is a strait-laced negative from the Commission to echo back his neigh?
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      4
      Was he a strait-laced prig who disapproved of dancing, do you mean?
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      5
      Except maybe a strait-laced, touched-by-sadness investigator and a beautiful and recently fired broker.
      The Irish Times
      6
      Adler recalled thinking when he met Ingrassia that he seemed earnest and strait-laced.
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      7
      Miltoun's being so extraordinarily strait-laced makes it all the more awkward.
      The Patrician
      8
      And for this he must not be thought narrow-minded, strait-laced, or unduly dignified.
      Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
      9
      She was a practical, strait-laced woman who cared little for her daughter's dreams.
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      10
      Is my liberty to be restricted by the narrow scruples of 'strait-laced' Christians?
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      11
      Why, Parson, old man, you mustn't be too strait-laced out here.
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      12
      I have mentioned Havana, and you mustn't think me strait-laced.
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      13
      A straight-backed, strait-laced military man, working with the Griffin's enemies?
      Hell to pay
      14
      Is singer Adam Lambert just too sexy for strait-laced Singapore?
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      15
      Maybe I'm wrong, and I often feel that I am strait-laced about such things.
      Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
      16
      Be not governed by your father's strait-laced and puritanical opinions.
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