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
It was a room where one might fancy the ghost of a tight-laced lady revisiting the scene of her embroidery.
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
These discontinued, she might linger on for years, existing, though not living—the tight-laced cannot be said to live.
From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles
