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strait laced

adjective as in narrow-minded

adjective as in starchy

adjective as in button down

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Example Sentences

Albert took the throne in July 2005 after the death of his strait-laced father, Prince Rainier.

There was in society, though it was not strait-laced or puritanical, a general standard of "good form."

I have asked two gentlemen to dinner; that will be livelier, not so strait-laced; we can laugh and enjoy ourselves.

He had taken the pledge from Father Mathew before he left Ireland, and had kept it faithfully; but he was not strait-laced.

Mr Taylor's 'solicitous and premeditated formalism' of poetical doctrine is, it must be confessed, a little too strait-laced.

She stopped on the path outside the decorous strait-laced houses and put her cool gloved hand up to her burning cheek.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to strait-laced, such as: austere, goody two-shoes, old-maidish, priggish, prim, and prissy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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