He saw Mzu, her small figure unmistakable in its prim business suit.

The papers extended across the hall and into a prim, fleckless parlor.

The house does not look so prim as it used to do.

The small, prim, stylish mother looked quite regal in her aristocratic rage.

There was a noticeable stiffening of the prim figure of Mrs. Gaston.

I heard paper rustle, then Dew continued in his prissy, high voice.

So thanks for your prissy little reminder but I already paid, right?

When he spoke, he sounded truly prissy, enunciating vowels for utmost effect.

The approach is latter-day Jane Austen, but prissy and without the style.

A prissy looking listing agent was waiting, tapping his watch in admonition.

Some of it must go; the public are fools and prudish fools.

And he was right as well, to think her prudish and overcautious.

This can be surprising to the relatively prudish mainstream of previous generations.

He did not look at her, but he did not seem prudish.

We become more and more prudish as what we call civilization advances.

They are violent, and at the same time quite raw and priggish.

The logical understanding must not be allowed to put on priggish airs.

It can mean someone who seems annoyingly earnest, or priggish, or judgmental.

There was really nothing priggish about this statement, however it may sound.

As for sexual politics, Adam in Paradise Lost is a priggish patriarch.

He said, She's so uptight and straitlaced-howcould she possibly understand you?

You know-myideas are rather straitlaced,- Isupposeyou would say, Puritanical.

She is an old-fashioned, old-world lady, with peculiar straitlaced notions of her own.

I think critics today are a pretty straitlaced, sober lot.

He was not straitlaced, or mealy-mouthed, or overburthened with scruples.

Disney's fairytale has become the biggest grossing animation of all time, despite its straightlaced plot.

I might not look like it, but when it comes to sex I'm pretty straightlaced.

You have become marvelously straightlaced all at once.

Those straightlaced sensibilities have been thrilled by beauty, and bathed in the grace and glory of the life around them.

The times were not of the straightlaced order and no one expected from an actress wonders of chastity or conventionality.

No one, I tell you, not even the most strait-laced or censorious.

Old Mr. Cayley, though not the least strait-laced, was a religious man.

Is a strait-laced negative from the Commission to echo back his neigh?

Was he a strait-laced prig who disapproved of dancing, do you mean?

Except maybe a strait-laced, touched-by-sadness investigator and a beautiful and recently fired broker.

Grandfather Jonathan Forrest, the straight-laced Puritan, had died of a hunting accident.

They were the straight-laced brethren who walked so erect that they leaned backward.

I picked the most straight-laced, stereotypically boring thing that I could think of.

Chappelle hilariously portrayed both artists against Murphy's straight-laced you-had-to-see-it-to-believe-it recollection.

For such an apparently straight-laced man, Federed does seem to have some colourful supporters.

Her dress was white damask, exceeding neat; but her stays seemed not tight-laced.

Yet the tight-laced bodice of her gown and rounded breasts proved her a woman.

A tight-laced chest and a good disposition cannot go together.

In this, too, you will perceive the tight-laced lady taking a flight beyond the sublime philosopher.

She herself was wearing the tight-laced, dark blue dress Aunt Bieja had given her so many years ago.

They were low-heeled, square-toed boots, embellished with scrolls done in red thread.

He wore the blood-red uniform and square-toed boots of a Parachute Ski Marine.

There lay the sole difference, and the square-toed Leipzig burghers did not perceive it.

Emily saw Maya's square-toed Mary Janes under her stall door.

Not a square-toed Englisher's shoe but a rounded soft-heeled slipper.