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strict
adjective as in stern; severe; austere
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draconian, exacting, harsh, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, stern, stringent, tough
Weak matches
austere, dead set, disciplinary, dour, firm, forbidding, grim, hard, hard-boiled, iron-fisted, no-nonsense, oppressive, picky, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, set, square, stickling, straight, strait-laced, stuffy, unpermissive, unsparing, uptight
adjective as in accurate; absolute
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Example Sentences
Abbie says she was given strict budgets to stick to, and noticed that former colleagues who left were not replaced.
A 40-year-old woman, who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released with strict bail conditions, Nottinghamshire Police said.
Lethal removal is permitted only under strict conditions.
Sirikit vanished from public view during the last decade of her life, battling illness and shielded by Thailand's strict royal defamation laws that make discussion of the monarchy fraught with risk.
In the rare 1980 interview with the BBC, she also described the relationship between the monarchy and people in Thailand, which continues to observe strict lese-majeste laws forbidding insult of the monarchy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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