straitlaced

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.