strait-laced

How To Use strait-laced In A Sentence

• `I suppose you could say that I'm living as a loose woman, but really I'm very strait-laced about marriage -- other people's marriages. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
• Ameche and Tierney are a handsome, appealing pair from their first meeting in a bookshop, while Charles Coburn (as scampish Grandpa Hugo) and Allyn Joslyn (as Henry's strait-laced cousin Albert) round out a fabulous supporting cast. John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch'
• The movie's high point—its very high point—is Frances McDormand's sensational performance as Sam's mother, Jane, a pansexual record producer who can't suppress a nervous giggle when she introduces her strait-laced son to a gaggle of indolent musicians. 'Contraband': Almost Illegally Entertaining
• You guys are so strait-laced, but you go crazy when you're let off your leashes.
• They are not second-tier officials, but strait-laced Party servants previously entrusted with lofty responsibilities. Yoani Sanchez: Card-Carrying Communist Green Collar Criminals: Planning for Their Futures as Capitalists
• 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.
• Shawn, the bridegroom, is played as a gormless buffoon; the real comedy of the earnest, strait-laced coward goes for nothing.
• Remember before the Microsoft era, back when the archetype of the computer engineer was not that of a laid-back, semi-cool, scruffy geek but that of a strait-laced, uptight, button-down IBM company man with a company haircut? Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt
• For KP it must have felt a bit like going somewhere really strait-laced on your gap year and entirely reinventing yourself, perhaps as a flamboyant transsexual New York garage DJ-type figure, only to turn round one day and find half the people from your A-level year standing in the corner looking faintly amused. Colonial promiscuity in danger of diluting test cricket's pleasures | Barney Ronay
• He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.