straight-laced in English

adjective

1

having or showing very strict moral attitudes.

A strait-laced British Government official arrives to offer cash aid to dig 38 wells for the president's drought-stricken people.

synonyms: prim (and proper), prudish, puritanical, prissy, conservative, old-fashioned, stuffy, staid, narrow-minded, starchy, square, fuddy-duddy

adjective

• prim, prudish, puritanical, tight-laced, priggish, square-toed, straightlaced, prissy, straitlaced, strait-laced

adjective

• prim, prudish, puritanical, tight-laced, priggish, square-toed, straight-laced, prissy, straitlaced, strait-laced

adjective

• prim (and proper), prudish, puritanical, prissy, conservative, old-fashioned, stuffy, staid, narrow-minded, starchy, square, fuddy-duddy
• prim, prudish, puritanical, tight-laced, priggish, square-toed, straightlaced, straight-laced, prissy, straitlaced

Use "straight-laced" in a sentence

1. Like you're so damned straight-laced.

2. What does maiden-Auntish mean? Having stereotypical characteristics of an elderly unmarried aunt; straight-laced, old-fashioned, etc

3. Even though he is comparatively straight-laced, Parker still makes time to kick back and enjoy life, especially sports.

4. Maiden-Auntish (comparative more maiden-Auntish, superlative most maiden-Auntish) Having stereotypical characteristics of an elderly unmarried aunt; straight-laced, old-fashioned, etc

5. When her straight-laced sister Liz asks her be a surrogate mother, Ciara's once aimless and madcap life begins to get more than a little Bumpy.

6. Gina in Porco Rosso is a very clean and straight-laced example, but she does have the glamour (with lingering shots of her large earrings slowly turning as she sings), the loneliness, and the romantic melancholy.; Zigzagged with Miss Kitty, the mouse showgirl/singer in the Bad-Guy Bar sequence in The Great Mouse Detective.She starts off as the Chanteuse, then switches costume and song-style