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uptight
adjective as in nervous
Example Sentences
Who would want to be uptight when you could be irrepressible?
At first, the character is "uptight, serious, buttoned up", and Dennis has to curb his natural instincts to play up to the crowd.
A finely calibrated cast, including Christopher Walken, finds depth in initially shallow stereotypes — rich influencer, uptight white guy, brainy Indian girl — as a crew sentenced to community service for their petty infractions.
"I'm so much less uptight," he said, before laughing.
“The style of his drawings probably didn’t help him in the uptight art world, but his work deserves to be there.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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