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
There's a regular tight-laced mob about her, and they all hate you.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
I play for him in the salon—oh, no, not in my room—that would be a crime in this tight-laced old town.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
