be uptight
Example Sentences
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Who would want to be uptight when you could be irrepressible?
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2024
“Audiences are still gonna be uptight and outraged at something,” Mr. Vos says.
From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2018
According to the rules laid down in some screenwriters’ bible somewhere, when you make a buddy comedy, one of them has to be uptight and one of them has to be freewheeling.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2013
Then you’ll be uptight and you won’t play loose and relaxed.
From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2011
"How can people be uptight about the war and things like that when they have to worry about heat and hot water?" asks New York Congressman Charles Rangel.
From Time Magazine Archive
