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View synonyms for straight-laced

straight-laced

[ streyt-leyst ]

adjective



straight-laced

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of strait-laced
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • straight-lac·ed·ly [streyt, -, ley, -sid-lee, -, leyst, -lee], adverb
  • straight-laced·ness noun
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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?

From Salon

Which meant bringing people to the very straight-laced Rockefeller Institute and giving them drugs.

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