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Straitlaced

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Adjective

1. priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian

exaggeratedly proper

Example Sentences:
'my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Straitlaced

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adjective
prudish or puritanical

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Straitlaced

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adjective
1.  Archaic
a. 
tightly laced, as a corset
b. 
wearing tightly laced garments
2. 
narrowly strict or severe in behavior or moral views

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