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tight-laced
adjective as in prissy
Example Sentences
For example, tight-laced Singapore is famous for its chewing gum ban.
Seated in the chair was a man in a tight-laced leather jerkin and breeches of roughspun brown wool.
Fortunately, the twentieth century girl is less of a butterfly than the tight-laced hoop-skirted young miss of the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Their old-fashioned, stately, tight-laced, shrivelled figures formed a strange contrast with the easiness of the young people in their simple serge summer suits: they made Princess Wanda's tangled hair and rumpled blouse look perfectly disreputable.
But to-day, instead of being the most tight-laced of the arts, architecture is the freest and most wanton of them all.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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