Extremely proper

Usage examples of straightlaced.

Were it not notorious that the straightlaced prudish dare not listen to, the natural chaste, certain things Mrs.

Bethelites tended to be straightlaced, but Joseph ben Said had the wholehearted love of a well-thought-out swindle natural to a Keriss wharf rat.

The only good news is that it seems the straightlaced admiral is thinking the same way we are.

The viewer was a novelty since plain mirrors were considered more than adequate on straightlaced Capellia.

Or perhaps you judged her too rich to be tempted by promises of quick cash, or too straightlaced to countenance your activities.

For even if Lucas was less straightlaced than she had assumed, surely he cared for her on a personal level.

But there are some fifty of them, altogether, and some are old, others remarkably straightlaced, a few of them are women, and surely not all of them can be as weak-willed as the dean or as crude as Norman Rockhurst.