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

So the women of fashion are compared with children in go-carts, their tight-laced waists rising from vast bells of petticoats over which the gown is looped up like a drawn curtain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

"He can't be tight-laced without stays," said Tommy scornfully.

From Many Cargoes by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)