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English

Adjective

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strait-laced \Strait"-laced`\, a.
1. Bound with stays.
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Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she
thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are
strait-laced. --Locke.
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2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] --Fuller.
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3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
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WordNet 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]

WordNet 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]

Moby Dictionary
Quakerish , Sabbatarian , Victorian , authoritarian , bigot , bigoted ,
borne , censorious , closed , constricted , cramped , creedbound , deaf ,
deaf to reason , demure , dogmatic , dour , evangelical , fanatical ,
firm , fundamentalist , genteel , hard , hidebound , hyperorthodox ,
illiberal , impliable , inexorable , inflexible , insular , iron ,
ironbound , ironclad , ironhanded , libertine , literalist ,
literalistic , little , little-minded , mean , mean-minded ,
mean-spirited , mid-Victorian , muscle-bound , narrow , narrow-hearted ,
narrow-minded , narrow-souled , narrow-spirited , nearsighted ,
obdurate , obstinate , old-maidish , orthodox , overmodest , parochial ,
petty , precisianist , precisianistic , prig , priggish , prim , prissy ,
procrustean , provincial , prudish , purblind , purist , puristic ,
puritan , puritanic , puritanical , relentless , rigid , rigorist ,
rigoristic , rigorous , rockbound , sanctimonious , shortsighted ,
small , small-minded , smug , staunch , stiff , stiff-necked ,
straightlaced , strict , stubborn , stuffy , unbending , uncatholic ,
uncharitable , uncompromising , ungenerous , unliberal , unrelenting ,
unyielding