straight-laced

[ streyt-leyst ]

adjective

1. strait-laced.

straight-laced

adjective

1. a variant spelling of strait-laced

Other Words From

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

From New York Times

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.

From Seattle Times

Case is the embittered, thick-skinned trauma survivor to Bob’s straight-laced, God-fearing lawman.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Scientific American