straitlaced

In recent years the party has embarked on a mission to revamp its straitlaced, no-nonsense image, particularly to attract younger voters who have typically been more sympathetic to the opposition.

Why did DeSantis’s attempt to appeal to Republican voters as a straitlaced version of Trump fall so flat?

At first Gourley’s fans were confused — maybe even disappointed — that he’d taken such a comparatively straitlaced “corporate” job, and in the first year or so his voice was seldom heard on the blockbuster podcast.

More serious, and also worthy, are Jamie Bell as a straitlaced father from the ‘80s in ‘All of Us Strangers’ and Robert Downey Jr. for his nearly unrecognizable turn in ‘Oppenheimer.’

“There were all these people going wild around me and I felt really straitlaced.”