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
- Victorian
- affected
- artificial
- austere
- bigoted
- conventional
- demure
- fastidious
- finicky
- genteel
- illiberal
- mincing
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- offish
- overexact
- overmodest
- overnice
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- proper
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- severe
- simpering
- square
- squeamish
- starchy
- stern
- stiff
- stilted
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- uptight
- 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
- unalterable
- unbending
- unbreakable
- unchanging
- uncompromising
- undeviating
- unmoving
- unpermissive
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- biting
- caustic
- close
- cold
- cruel
- cutting
- despotic
- disapproving
- dour
- earnest
- firm
- flinty
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- hard
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- inconsiderate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron-handed
- obdurate
- oppressive
- peremptory
- pitiless
- relentless
- resolute
- resolved
- rigid
- rigorous
- satirical
- scathing
- serious
- sober
- stern
- stiff
- strait-laced
- strict
- stringent
- tight-lipped
- tyrannical
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unrelenting
- unsmiling
- unsparing
- austere
- dead set
- disciplinary
- dour
- draconian
- exacting
- firm
- forbidding
- grim
- hard
- hard-boiled
- harsh
- iron-fisted
- no-nonsense
- oppressive
- picky
- prudish
- punctilious
- puritanical
- rigid
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- scrupulous
- set
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- square
- stern
- stickling
- straight
- strait-laced
- stringent
- stuffy
- tough
- unpermissive
- unsparing
- uptight
- austere
- dead set
- disciplinary
- dour
- draconian
- exacting
- firm
- forbidding
- grim
- hard
- hard-boiled
- harsh
- iron-fisted
- no-nonsense
- oppressive
- picky
- prudish
- punctilious
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- set
- severe
- square
- stern
- stickling
- straight
- strait-laced
- stringent
- stuffy
- tough
- unpermissive
- unsparing
- uptight
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