uptight in English

adjective
1
anxious or angry in a tense and overly controlled way.
don't get so uptight about everything

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1. Uptight bastards.

2. She is very uptight.

3. Yeah, and the most uptight.

4. I am not uptight.

5. I don't want to be uptight.

6. You can't call me uptight.

7. “Each day I get more uptight and nervous.

8. He was very uptight about his daughter's scraggly - looking boyfriends.

9. An English song can loosen up our uptight nerve & off whiny emotion.

10. 7 Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.

11. Airways is a great 18-hole course for non-stuffy, non-uptight players

12. Anna Camp as Aubrey Posen, the uptight and traditionalist co-leader of the Bellas.

13. She is both poised and uptight, both intellectually curious and submissively ladylike.

14. When the time is right I'll move alright so don't get too uptight

15. I just felt the whole thing to be a bit stiff, uptight, not really user-friendly.

16. I mean, that one's so uptight, she's probably got a wood chipper for a coochie.

17. If we were the bosses, we'd consider finding a replacement for this uptight , petty , sanctimonious clerk.

18. What does tight-Ass mean? The definition of a tight Ass is a person who is tense, uptight, inhibited and can't relax

19. In 2008, de Botton helped start the School of Life in London, a social enterprise determined to make learning and therapy relevant in today's uptight culture

20. Dorothy, a war widow, is a painfully uptight figure who Busies herself with household affairs and who even regards wearing a pinny in front of visitors as a breach of decorum

21. "Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and Bolshier …

22. Being the new kid in town doesn't slow him down one bit, and his sunny personality soon wins over two best friends, uptight Jeff (voiced by Sean Giambrone) and offbeat Sumo ().No matter what each day holds, Clarence (Skyler Page) is game for it, whether it's a trip to the local burger joint with

23. ‘We were getting pretty Blotto off Pink Squirrels and Brandy Alexanders, and it was a strange sensation, looking at old fairy-tale scenes while listening to this loopy music!’ ‘I even attempted panhandling once, quickly learning that when you are Blotto it's difficult to shame ‘bus fare’ from uptight businessmen.’

24. Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds - A Short Cut To Teenage Fanclub is a greatest hits album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released on 3 February 2003.The title refers to the album's total length, just 34 seconds short of the maximum running time possible on a single CD: as a consequence the track "My Uptight Life" was edited from its original version in