strait-laced

Albert took the throne in July 2005 after the death of his strait-laced father, Prince Rainier.

There was in society, though it was not strait-laced or puritanical, a general standard of "good form."

I have asked two gentlemen to dinner; that will be livelier, not so strait-laced; we can laugh and enjoy ourselves.

He had taken the pledge from Father Mathew before he left Ireland, and had kept it faithfully; but he was not strait-laced.

Mr Taylor's 'solicitous and premeditated formalism' of poetical doctrine is, it must be confessed, a little too strait-laced.

She stopped on the path outside the decorous strait-laced houses and put her cool gloved hand up to her burning cheek.