Strait-laced a.
1. Bound with stays.
Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. --Locke.
2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.]
3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
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strait-laced
adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy,
prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced,
straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
straitlaced
adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy,
prudish, puritanical, square-toed, strait-laced,
straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]