ADJECTIVE
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exaggeratedly proper
my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
How To Use straight-laced In A Sentence
- We refuse to settle for just being a nutty professor, a flaky musician, a straight-laced suit, or a thuggish musclehead, Thad barked like a rebel warrior. Sin in Soul's Kitchen
- Middle Men tells the true story of Jack Harris “the straight-laced businessman who helped launch one of the first porn websites” and becomes “caught between the Russian mob, a porn star, the FBI and his family, all while becoming very rich.” Paramount Buys Middle Man, Watch the Red Band Movie Trailer Now! | /Film
- Proudly warm and nostalgic for its soundstage-perfect Victorian Era setting, the film features Garland as irresistable as ever and Johnson well-cast as a suitor so straight-laced he seems almost quaint by modern standards. Sick Transit « Screaming Blue Reviews
- Audiences will love pretty much everyone in the movie, from the sexually daring parents to their straight-laced, teenaged son to the hunky plumber whose tool kit contains a couple of surprises.
- She had been planning to make an issue of that too, knowing her mode of dress would appall the straight-laced Kariens. TREASON KEEP
- She had been planning to make an issue of that too, knowing her mode of dress would appall the straight-laced Kariens. TREASON KEEP
- Forrest, the straight-laced Puritan, had died of a hunting accident. CHAPTER XXX
- She had been planning to make an issue of that too, knowing her mode of dress would appall the straight-laced Kariens. TREASON KEEP
- ‘You can be the most straight-laced person in the world but still find stuff like that funny,’ says Robson.
- Due to her strict and pious upbringing Edith was a brisk, businesslike and rather straight-laced woman, serious with a no-nonsense attitude but still well liked by all who knew her.