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Definitions

straight and narrow

NOUN

right conduct

Synonyms

WEAK

honesty integrity moral integrity morality proper conduct righteousness

Example Sentences

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Rashford has taken a significant stride on that road to redemption - now can he use the Barcelona stage to finally put his career back on the straight and narrow?

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

Nothing like a close call, a brush with doom, to scare you into staying on the straight and narrow.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Houlahan and Curtis decided to focus on oncogenes, normal genes that, when mutated, can free a cell from regulatory pathways meant to keep it on the straight and narrow.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

The “I Get the Bag” artist opened up about what had kept him on the straight and narrow since his release.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

The servants’ steps were the quickest way down—not grand, but steep and straight and narrow, hidden in the walls.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin