tight-laced
Example Sentences
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For example, tight-laced Singapore is famous for its chewing gum ban.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
The Journal announced itself horrified by the "cigaret-soaked indecencies" of the naughty '90s, and peddled the theory that tight-laced corsets were responsible for gallstones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seated in the chair was a man in a tight-laced leather jerkin and breeches of roughspun brown wool.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
But to-day, instead of being the most tight-laced of the arts, architecture is the freest and most wanton of them all.
From Underground Man by Gabriel Tarde
It was a room where one might fancy the ghost of a tight-laced lady revisiting the scene of her embroidery.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
