Thesaurus / strait-laced
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The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSDeparture on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGDirections for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGAnd the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEOn the south-side of Clarence Strait the land is low, like the coast to the eastward.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGA flat-topped hill near the shore of Scott's Strait is a remarkable object, and may be seen six or seven leagues off.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGBetween the easternmost islet and the land, there is a strait of a league in width.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGSunday Strait is more than four miles wide, and appears to be free from danger.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGMalus Island is separated from Lewis Island by a strait a mile wide; it is probably deep.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGYoung Richard, never loath to fortify himself, proved amenable enough to the stiffly laced Canary that his friend set before him.
MISTRESS WILDINGRAFAEL SABATINIWORDS RELATED TO STRAIT-LACED
- affected
- aristocratic
- artificial
- chivalrous
- civil
- confined
- courteous
- courtly
- cultivated
- distingué
- elegant
- fashionable
- formal
- graceful
- hollow
- intolerant
- la-di-da
- mannerly
- noble
- ostentatious
- polished
- polite
- pompous
- precious
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- prudish
- refined
- respectable
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
- adamant
- adamantine
- austere
- bullheaded
- changeless
- chiseled
- dead set
- definite
- determined
- exact
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-line
- harsh
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intransigent
- invariable
- locked in
- obdurate
- rigorous
- set
- set in stone
- single-minded
- solid
- static
- stern
- strait-laced
- stringent
- tough nut to crack
- unalterable
- unbending
- unbreakable
- unchanging
- uncompromising
- undeviating
- unmoving
- unpermissive
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- Victorian
- affected
- aristocratic
- artificial
- bluenosed
- chivalrous
- civil
- confined
- courteous
- courtly
- cultivated
- distingué
- elegant
- fashionable
- formal
- graceful
- hollow
- intolerant
- la-di-da
- mannerly
- noble
- ostentatious
- polished
- polite
- pompous
- precious
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prim and proper
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- refined
- respectable
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
- Victorian
- blue-nose
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- choosy
- cleanly
- conventional
- correct
- dapper
- decorous
- demure
- fastidious
- formal
- genteel
- good
- goody-goody
- nice
- nit-picking
- orderly
- overmodest
- polite
- precise
- priggish
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- rigid
- shipshape
- spick-and-span
- spruce
- stickling
- stiff
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- tidy
- uncluttered
- upright
- well-groomed
- wooden
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