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Exaggeratedly proper.
victorian
prim
prissy
puritanical
prudish
priggish
straitlaced
straightlaced
straight-laced
tight-laced
proper
1
No one, I tell you, not even the most
strait
-
laced
or censorious.
2
Old Mr. Cayley, though not the least
strait
-
laced
,
was a religious man.
3
Is a
strait
-
laced
negative from the Commission to echo back his neigh?
4
Was he a
strait
-
laced
prig who disapproved of dancing, do you mean?
5
Except maybe a
strait
-
laced
,
touched-by-sadness investigator and a beautiful and recently fired broker.
6
Adler recalled thinking when he met Ingrassia that he seemed earnest and
strait
-
laced
.
7
Miltoun's being so extraordinarily
strait
-
laced
makes it all the more awkward.
8
And for this he must not be thought narrow-minded,
strait
-
laced
,
or unduly dignified.
9
She was a practical,
strait
-
laced
woman who cared little for her daughter's dreams.
10
Is my liberty to be restricted by the narrow scruples of
'
strait
-
laced
'
Christians?
11
Why, Parson, old man, you mustn't be too
strait
-
laced
out here.
12
I have mentioned Havana, and you mustn't think me
strait
-
laced
.
13
A straight-backed,
strait
-
laced
military man, working with the Griffin's enemies?
14
Is singer Adam Lambert just too sexy for
strait
-
laced
Singapore?
15
Maybe I'm wrong, and I often feel that I am
strait
-
laced
about such things.
16
Be not governed by your father's
strait
-
laced
and puritanical opinions.
strait-laced ways
strait-laced women
too strait-laced