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strait laced
adjective as in narrow-minded
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adjective as in prim
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adjective as in prissy
adjective as in proper
adjective as in rigid
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adjective as in severe
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- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- biting
- caustic
- close
- cold
- cruel
- cutting
- despotic
- disapproving
- dour
- earnest
- firm
- flinty
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- hard
- hard-nosed
- inconsiderate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron-handed
- obdurate
- oppressive
- peremptory
- pitiless
- resolute
- resolved
- rigid
- rigorous
- satirical
- scathing
- sober
- stern
- stiff
- strait-laced
- tight-lipped
- tyrannical
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unrelenting
- unsmiling
- unsparing
adjective as in square
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adjective as in squeamish
adjective as in starchy
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adjective as in strait-laced
adjective as in strict
adjective as in old-maidish
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adjective as in demure
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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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