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straight-laced
[ streyt-leyst ]
straight-laced
adjective
- a variant spelling of strait-laced
Other Words From
- straight-lac·ed·ly [streyt, -, ley, -sid-lee, -, leyst, -lee], adverb
- straight-laced·ness noun
Example Sentences
Judge voices the central character himself, a straight-laced patriarch of a Texas family struggling to maintain his values in a changing world.
Tory was known as a straight-laced, button down moderate conservative — almost the polar opposite of previous Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use.
Case is the embittered, thick-skinned trauma survivor to Bob’s straight-laced, God-fearing lawman.
Did you read that New Yorker piece about how it was all made-up and it was this very straight-laced?
Which meant bringing people to the very straight-laced Rockefeller Institute and giving them drugs.
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