straitlaced 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, straight-laced, prissy, 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 "straitlaced" in a sentence

1. The Don was straitlaced about sex.

2. My straitlaced aunt anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts.

3. My straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts.

4. Not " getting " deception or nuance, they are straitlaced and humorless.

5. My aunt's very straitlaced - she'd be shocked if you mentioned sex.

6. Our unconventional behaviour did in fact shock some of our more straitlaced friends.

7. It was preceded by this, his only other novel, a work more straitlaced in literary form but just as shockingly original in content.

8. Don Corleone, notoriously straitlaced in such matters, though his stout wife was screaming joyfully with the others, disappeared tactfully into the house.

9. The retrospective was billed as a tribute to Hollywood’s “naughtiest, Bawdiest year,” a nod to the looming shadow of the Production Code and to the salty prominence of the year’s biggest star, Mae West, whose She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel set records even in supposedly straitlaced communities