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

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 Huneker, James

Her dress was white damask, exceeding neat; but her stays seemed not tight-laced.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel