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STRAITLACED Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. Excessively strict in manners, morals, or opinion. 2. Wearing or having a bodice or stays tightly.
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STRAIT-LACED definition | Cambridge English Dictionary
having old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters: The joke shocked her strait-laced parents.
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Straitlaced - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
a synonym for "uptight" or "stuffy." The general idea is that straitlaced people are too rigid or narrow in their thinking.
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strait-laced
strait-laced, a. (ˌstreɪtˈleɪst) [f. strait adv. + laced ppl. a.] † 1. Wearing stays or bodice tightly laced. Obs.1626 Moryson Shaks. Europe (1903) 485 The [Irish] wemen generally are not straight laced..and the greatest part are not laced at all. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. Pref., No Maid here's hands...
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326 Synonyms & Antonyms for STRAIT-LACED | Thesaurus.com
Find 326 different ways to say STRAIT-LACED, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.
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Straight vs. Strait (plus Straitjacket and Straitlaced) - Merriam-Webster
Straight can mean "without bend," "heterosexual," and "fairness," while strait means "narrow, strict, or constricted."
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strait-laced
strait-laced/ˌstreɪt ˈleɪst; `stretˌlest/ adj(derog 贬) having or showing a very strict attitude to moral questions; prim and proper (在道德问题上)极拘谨的; 一本正经的; 古板的 My old aunts are very strait-laced. 我的老姨妈都很古板.
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straight-laced - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
having such strongly apparent analogy with straight in its senses relating to orthodoxy and conformity (compare squareness), that it can no longer accurately ...
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StraitLaced - The TLB Boutique
Strait Laced Tucker Wide Leg PantPants. Quick view. StraitLaced Tucker Wide Leg Pant. $168.00. "Close (esc)". Strait Laced Harrison Mock NeckTop. Quick view.
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What is another word for straight-laced? - WordHippo
Adjective Having narrow views on moral matters Smug or ostentatiously virtuous Noun Someone who is smugly or overly well-behaved.
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STRAIT-LACED definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
If you describe someone as strait-laced, you disapprove of them because they have very strict views about what kind of behavior is moral or acceptable.
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STRAIGHT-LACED Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
a straight-laced patriarch of a Texas family struggling to maintain his values in a changing world.
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Dirt (1994 film)
When Zheng is injured by a mutual friend, Ye finds herself increasingly attracted to the strait-laced Zheng, while also finding herself attracted to Peng Zhang Xiaotong as Zheng Weidong, a strait-laced police officer who disapproves of Peng Wei's lifestyle.
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Aurat (1940 film)
Later, the two eldest children die, leaving her with only two sons: the strait-laced Ramu (Surendra) and the wild Birju (Yakub).
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Masao Sugiuchi
His nickname was "the God of Go" (Japanese 碁の神様, Go no Kami-sama) because of his serious style and strait-laced personality.
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