Crossword clues for straitlaced
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of strait-laced English)
WordNet
adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
Usage examples of "straitlaced".
Unfortunately, Granduncle Reuben was very old-fashioned and straitlaced, and did not altogether trust the modern generation.
But Marcus thought he knew her and she was just scared, and shy, and very young, and she probably came from a very straitlaced background.
Better Lucas thought her a narrow-minded, straitlaced prig than that he learn the real truth, which was that she was an idiot.
He tried hard, but he could not think of a single reason why prim, straitlaced Amaryllis Lark would want to spend the evening at one of the raunchiest syn-sex strip clubs in town.
She could be very serious and a little straitlaced, but when she was your friend, she was your friend forever.
He had a wife and small son in a modest place in Nihombashi, a rather straitlaced High City district full of earnest young bankers and civil servants on their way up in life.
Goldfish (Carassius auratus) are generally pretty straitlaced, but a Russian researcher some years ago reported he had discovered a protogynous version of C.