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
Her head stood nobly on her shoulders, giving to her bust that ease and grace of which sculptors are so fond, and of which tight-laced stays are so utterly subversive.
From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
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 Lillian Eichler
