strait-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 (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

adjective

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

Use "strait-laced" in a sentence

1. My old aunts are very strait - laced.

2. And we became a nation of strait-laced Puritans.

3. But his conformist image and manner belie his break with strait - laced Japanese business conventions.

4. 11 That Jeffersonian sentiment seems to have influenced even China's normally strait-laced, rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), which has just wrapped up its annual session.

5. ‘It is strangely unclassifiable television - a Caustically comic, surreptitiously sudsy thriller that has alienated a whole tranche of strait-laced Americans and so delighted many more.’ ‘Maybe it is in his corner, but as one Indonesian newspaper commented Caustically, ‘No doubt the police feel safe, because they have guns.’’