straight and narrow

NOUN

right conduct

Synonyms

WEAK

honesty integrity moral integrity morality proper conduct righteousness

Example Sentences

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Rashford has taken a significant stride on that road to redemption - now can he use the Barcelona stage to finally put his career back on the straight and narrow?

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

He’s such a good guy, and we’re both on the straight and narrow.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

Nothing like a close call, a brush with doom, to scare you into staying on the straight and narrow.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Houlahan and Curtis decided to focus on oncogenes, normal genes that, when mutated, can free a cell from regulatory pathways meant to keep it on the straight and narrow.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Except for the comics I spent most of the summer on the straight and narrow.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers