strait-laced

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1. Excessively strict in behavior, morality, or opinions.2. Having or wearing a tightly laced garment
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, strait-laced and narrow-minded
excessively conservative, very conventional; extremely strict; laced tightly; wearing tightly laced clothing
straitlaced
{a} stiff, formal, narrow, constrained
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Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals
straitlaced
{s} excessively conservative, very conventional; extremely strict
straitlaced
Bound with stays
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alternative spelling of strait-laced
straitlaced
Restricted; stiff; constrained
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having strict, old-fashioned ideas about moral behaviour
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exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"