straight-laced

Judge voices the central character himself, a straight-laced patriarch of a Texas family struggling to maintain his values in a changing world.

Tory was known as a straight-laced, button down moderate conservative — almost the polar opposite of previous Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use.

Case is the embittered, thick-skinned trauma survivor to Bob’s straight-laced, God-fearing lawman.

Did you read that New Yorker piece about how it was all made-up and it was this very straight-laced?

Which meant bringing people to the very straight-laced Rockefeller Institute and giving them drugs.