My straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : strait-laced censors. From Dictionary.com.
The spelling is "straitlaced", not "straight-laced", though again both are in common use. From Wordnik.com. [chug chug chug] Reference
It's as though he is mocking The Edge for being so "straitlaced" that he's actually turned numb. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment magazine The Cheers] Reference
Although you can't really claim that the album gave us "straitlaced" versions of the classics, can you?!. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
"straitlaced", because she would not evade rules or join in certain doubtful undertakings. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life] Reference
As Eric, also 32, flew toward Austin, he was worried that his rockin’ friend would still see him as some kind of straitlaced sellout. From Wordnik.com. [Raiders of the Lost Backyard] Reference
Old Isaac Ford was straitlaced and all the rest, and. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride] Reference
But I guess Venusmen would swoon at how straitlaced we are. From Wordnik.com. [Podkayne Of Mars]
LAMB: You mentioned that he is a very straitlaced type of individual. From Wordnik.com. [House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington] Reference
These aren't really aliens so much as straitlaced, upper-class zombies. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Review: The Invasion] Reference
It ` s about two hitmen trying to hide out in a pretty straitlaced town. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2008] Reference
Dhemen, the Middle Eastern kingdom of his birth, was equally straitlaced. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheikh's Innocent Bride]
"Why spoil it for her?" he asked Willis, who was regrettably straitlaced. From Wordnik.com. [Clear and Present Danger]
In a more restricted, even straitlaced age, people had internal monitors. From Wordnik.com. [A Disproportionate Life] Reference
She was no longer a straitlaced, repressed, younger version of Aunt Prudie. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella At The Ball]
Labastida, straitlaced and presidential-looking, says he's a reformer, too. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's Never Seen A Race Like This] Reference
While the star projects a straitlaced image, he's loose and funny in person. From Wordnik.com. [In The Eye Of 'The Hurricane'] Reference
Sabrina was very straitlaced about certain things, very proper in the forms. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
Ah yes, those one word signifiers for character: virile Morgan, straitlaced Gaby. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-03] Reference
“She was very straitlaced, very, very proper — morally,” says Audrey Sieger. From Wordnik.com. [Mia's Story] Reference
When a straitlaced Gaby battles virile Morgan, animosity explodes into earthy passion. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-03] Reference
‘But the Burgesses all used to be such serious, straitlaced people,’ said Mrs MacHugh. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
His appearance is straitlaced: he always wears a pinstriped suit, a gleaming white shirt and a bow tie. From Wordnik.com. [49: E. A. Adeboye] Reference
People just look at them and think, hmm, a little too straitlaced, a little suspicious, probably an agent. From Wordnik.com. [Sting underscores Muslims' complex relationship with FBI] Reference
For example, she was cast in "The Godfather" because she was the anti-Apollonia; all straitlaced, prim and proper. From Wordnik.com. ["Who appointed Diane Keaton to the position of National Commissioner for Aging Female Sexuality?"] Reference
Esquivel's magic realism, Chocolat is a timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality. From Wordnik.com. [Chocolat: Summary and book reviews of Chocolat by Joanne Harris.] Reference
He was curious to know what a slimeworm like Rose might have transshipped from a place as dull and straitlaced as Largess. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
It was about an older corrupt police office in France who was partnered with a young, everything-by-the-book, straitlaced guy. From Wordnik.com. ["There are no moral or immoral jokes. A joke is either funny or it is not. That is all."] Reference
Woo a duchess or other high society type, or even a straitlaced colleague over to the forbidden side, and that would be worth watching. From Wordnik.com. [Act of Treason]
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