strait-laced
11strait-laced — also straight laced, straitlaced ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone as strait laced, you disapprove of them because they have very strict views about what kind of behaviour is moral or acceptable. He was criticised for being boring …
12strait´-laced´ness — strait laced «STRAYT LAYST», adjective. 1. very strict in matters of conduct; prudish: »I m not strait laced, but I tell you we got to have decent women in our schools (Sinclair Lewis). SYNONYM(S): stiff, formal. 2. Archaic. a) tightly laced. b) …
13strait-laced — excessively conservative, very conventional; extremely strict; laced tightly; wearing tightly laced clothing …
14strait-laced — adjective exaggeratedly proper my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn t approve of my miniskirts • Syn: ↑priggish, ↑prim, ↑prissy, ↑prudish, ↑puritanical, ↑square toed, ↑straitlaced, ↑ …
15strait-laced — (also straight laced) adjective having or showing very strict moral attitudes …
16strait-laced — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. strict, severe, stiff; see prudish . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form: bluenosed, genteel, old maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish,… …
17strait-laced — a. Strict, rigid, formal, stiff, stern, rigorous, austere, uncompromising …
18strait-laced — adj puritanical, puritan, prudish, nice nelly, moralistic, strict, austere, ascetic; severe, precise, abstinent, abstemious; stiff, stiff necked, rigid, arbitrary, narrow, uncompromising; priggish, over modest, old maidish, old fashioned, of the… …
19strait·laced — …
20strait — strait·en; strait·ly; strait·ness; strait; strait·laced·ly; strait·laced·ness; …
