strait-laced

Example Sentences

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"Next to the vomiting, gurning, maniacally grinning Keaton, she can’t help but seem a little bland and strait-laced."

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024

Last year, they were the strait-laced girl who had detailed notes, flash cards and pens for the borrowing; this year, the burnout who shows up at the end and aces the final?

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2023

Both Republican and Democratic politicos and appointees described him as a strait-laced administrator who played it by the book.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

After a tepid reaction to the strait-laced stage adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast,” Disney’s executives took a gamble and collaborated with the avant-garde artist Julie Taymor.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family’s strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles