Definitions

straight-laced

[streyt-leyst] / ˈstreɪtˈleɪst /

ADJECTIVE

strait-laced

Synonyms

WEAK

Victorian austere goody-two-shoes old-maidish priggish prim prissy proper prudish puritanical rigid square starchy stiff strict stuffy uptight

Antonyms

STRONGEST

permissive

WEAK

broad-minded

Example Sentences

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In 2004, she said, Capriglione came into the club where she was working and stood out as “a very straight-laced businessman.”

From Salon

“It’s a bonus when I’m able to stretch myself and feel like I’m being challenged,” Poulter says of his character, the most straight-laced figure in the film, but imbued by Poulter with a surprising vulnerability.

From Los Angeles Times

Paul is a straight-laced square, and Ford looks like he’s having a blast every episode pushing Paul to his limits.

From Salon

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

Did you read that New Yorker piece about how it was all made-up and it was this very straight-laced?

From Salon