straitlaced
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“Look at these guys,” Cyndi Lauper whispers discreetly as she nods toward a straitlaced couple strolling through the Sunset Marquis.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
In recent years the party has embarked on a mission to revamp its straitlaced, no-nonsense image, particularly to attract younger voters who have typically been more sympathetic to the opposition.
From BBC • May 1, 2025
Williams played the straitlaced Shirley to Marshall’s more libertine Laverne on the show about a pair of roommates that worked at a Milwaukee bottling factory in the 1950s and 60s.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2023
Not surprisingly, Morrison didn't get along with his straitlaced military dad.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021
The orderly troupe of farm animals lined along the windowsill and the straitlaced dolls poised in the various rooms of their open-sided mansion waited for the gem of her first sentence.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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