tight-laced

Example Sentences

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For example, tight-laced Singapore is famous for its chewing gum ban.

From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2023

The Journal announced itself horrified by the "cigaret-soaked indecencies" of the naughty '90s, and peddled the theory that tight-laced corsets were responsible for gallstones.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seated in the chair was a man in a tight-laced leather jerkin and breeches of roughspun brown wool.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"He ought to be tight-laced, I tell you," said the man.

From Many Cargoes by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)

Fortunately, the twentieth century girl is less of a butterfly than the tight-laced hoop-skirted young miss of the latter part of the nineteenth century.

From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Eichler, Lillian