straight-laced

Speech parts

1. straight-laced - Adjective

2. straight-laced - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

exaggeratedly proper

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Alternative names

straight laced

Synonyms

tight-laced victorian prissy prim puritanical prudish strait-laced priggish square-toed straitlaced straightlaced puritan basic proper severe
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Antonyms

bohemian off blue evil excessive loose
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Examples

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits. Brie Larson

my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts Source: Internet

Izzy chafes at her mother's straight-laced ways. Source: Internet

Q. I am starting a new job and it is a straight-laced company, suits daily and tuxedo for the company Christmas party (probably with black masks this year). Source: Internet

Christian Kestner is a straight-laced, uptight high school teacher happily married to Julia, a devoted, attractive lawyer. Source: Internet

Three of these eponymous cleaning tools appear clasped in the right hand of a late 19th-century peddler whose untidy pseudo-necktie undermines his straight-laced expression. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

straight-grained straight-hearted straight-joint straight-lacedly straight-legged straight-line homotopy