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straitlaced
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Why had Cliffe been invited by these very respectable and straitlaced people the Grosvilles?
It is a cold, insipid style of beauty, at the best; and she is as self-willed and as straitlaced as a lady abbess.
Although Daneford was not a straitlaced city, there was a good deal of solid propriety in the character of its people.
Inclined too much to melancholy, and a trifle too straitlaced for his advanced age, perhaps.
A few people are straitlaced, and a good many feel they have been taken in.
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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to straitlaced, 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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