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
She is very stiff and tight-laced, and very long in the waist; and at the waist where the gown opens and at the loopings of it the richer wear jewelled brooches.
From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
What if she had broken through some of the tight-laced rules with which all institutions of this kind hedge in their nurses?
From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth
