1. straitened - Adjective
2. straitened - Verb
of Straiten
Source: Webster's dictionaryBut when he says it's regrettable that people are in straitened economic circumstances, and he tries to arrange his face to suggest he feels your pain, it looks as if his entire being is recoiling at the effort to connect with the unwashed masses. Source: Internet
Though weary, it is not tired; though pressed it is not straitened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all. Source: Internet
We will see that student activists too often favor attempts at discussion are met with clamorous obloquy; that the scope of acceptable debate risks being profoundly straitened when the wrong speaker is invited to campus. Source: Internet
TheFinancial Timesis correct in characterizing intervention under the Obama administration as one that "meshes the moral and political impulses of American policy with the current straitened economic times." Source: Internet