strait-laced
Speech parts
1. strait-laced - Adjective
2. strait-laced - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Restricted; stiff; constrained.
Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
Girls brought up as you were, in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives.
my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
Critic Randy Rasmussen suggests that the character of Bill is fundamentally more naïve, strait-laced, less disclosing and more unconscious of his vindictive motives than his counterpart, Fridolin.
Jimmy Carter kept hard liquor out of his White House, which added to his reputation as being strait-laced.
However, despite her austere public image and her strait-laced private life, Mary was a caring mother in many respects, revealing a fun-loving and frivolous side to her children and teaching them history and music.