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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Why had Cliffe been invited by these very respectable and straitlaced people the Grosvilles?
THE MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM ASHEMRS. HUMPHRY WARDIt is a cold, insipid style of beauty, at the best; and she is as self-willed and as straitlaced as a lady abbess.
GYCIALEWIS MORRISAlthough Daneford was not a straitlaced city, there was a good deal of solid propriety in the character of its people.
THE WEIRD SISTERS, VOLUME II (OF 3)RICHARD DOWLINGInclined too much to melancholy, and a trifle too straitlaced for his advanced age, perhaps.
AINSLEE'S MAGAZINE, VOLUME 16, NO. 2, SEPTEMBER, 1905VARIOUSA few people are straitlaced, and a good many feel they have been taken in.
LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTERMRS. HUMPHRY WARDI don't think I'm more prejudiced or straitlaced than you: I think I'm less.
MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSIONGEORGE BERNARD SHAWHe was not straitlaced, or mealy-mouthed, or overburthened with scruples.
ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPESYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 24, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO STRAITLACED
- 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
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
- 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
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- stylish
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
- 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
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- uptight
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.