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Definition of strait-laced in English: strait-laced(also straight-laced) adjective streɪtˈleɪstˌstreɪtˈleɪst Having or showing very strict moral attitudes. his strait-laced parents were horrified Example sentencesExamples - And yet she's also, in a strange way, a highly moral person; it's just that she doesn't confuse morality with strait-laced cowardice and want of adventure.
- The institution represented apartheid-sanctioned entertainment with the local idiosyncrasy of dual-language, Christian parochialism and a straight-laced morality as part of the deal.
- In the sequel, a clash of cultures ensues when the straight-laced, conservative Byrnes family meets the liberal, relaxed Fockers.
- The straight-laced history of the capital became a focus for dreaming, a site for imagining a city which could better shape the lives of its inhabitants.
- Far from being strait-laced, women in the 1600s were as fashion conscious as today - even if it meant wearing highly revealing outfits.
- Audiences will love pretty much everyone in the movie, from the sexually daring parents to their straight-laced, teenaged son to the hunky plumber whose tool kit contains a couple of surprises.
- For two decades, the BBC's voice of youth enforced a moral code that your average Victorian aunt would have thought strait-laced.
- ‘What I had done was to signal a shift in our mindset to being more relaxed and open-minded, and less strait-laced and Victorian,’ he said.
- Straightforward and straight-laced, Haeg is not the mysterious type.
- It is strangely unclassifiable television - a caustically comic, surreptitiously sudsy thriller that has alienated a whole tranche of strait-laced Americans and so delighted many more.
- Due to her strict and pious upbringing Edith was a brisk, businesslike and rather straight-laced woman, serious with a no-nonsense attitude but still well liked by all who knew her.
- Once you turn the political contest into a strict test of personal character and behaviour, even the apparently most strait-laced leader is likely to come a cropper in the end.
- Shawn, the bridegroom, is played as a gormless buffoon; the real comedy of the earnest, strait-laced coward goes for nothing.
- She was very prim and straight-laced looking, and her entire personality tended to reinforce her appearance.
- It gets worse when Ian's straight-laced parents enter the fray.
- A strait-laced British Government official arrives to offer cash aid to dig 38 wells for the president's drought-stricken people.
- ‘You can be the most straight-laced person in the world but still find stuff like that funny,’ says Robson.
- To their more gung-ho colleagues in the financial sector, this strait-laced group is little more than a regulatory irritant, more interested in stopping them making money than helping them.
- ‘It was the only erotic program,’ Ananich said, recalling how strait-laced television was back then.
- Although the official site is comprehensive and impressive, it is straight-laced compared to the more flamboyant style of the fansite.
Synonyms prim and proper, prim, proper, prudish, priggish, puritanical, moralistic, prissy, mimsy, niminy-piminy, shockable, Victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy conventional, conservative, old-fashioned, stuffy, staid, of the old school, narrow-minded informal goody-goody, starchy, square, fuddy-duddy, stick-in-the-mud rare Grundyish, Pecksniffian
Usage As an adjective strait means ‘narrow or cramped’ and ‘strict or rigorous’: the idea behind strait-laced and straitjacket is of being tightly laced or confined. As strait is now old-fashioned and unfamiliar, however, people often interpret it as the more usual word straight. Straight-laced and straightjacket are now generally accepted in standard English, and the spelling straight-laced is more common than strait-laced in the Oxford English Corpus Rhymes barefaced, baste, boldfaced, chaste, haste, lambaste, paste, po-faced, red-faced, self-faced, shamefaced, smooth-faced, taste, unplaced, untraced, waist, waste Definition of strait-laced in US English: strait-laced(also straight-laced) adjectiveˌstrātˈlāstˌstreɪtˈleɪst Having or showing very strict moral attitudes. his strait-laced parents were horrified Example sentencesExamples - A strait-laced British Government official arrives to offer cash aid to dig 38 wells for the president's drought-stricken people.
- Shawn, the bridegroom, is played as a gormless buffoon; the real comedy of the earnest, strait-laced coward goes for nothing.
- Far from being strait-laced, women in the 1600s were as fashion conscious as today - even if it meant wearing highly revealing outfits.
- In the sequel, a clash of cultures ensues when the straight-laced, conservative Byrnes family meets the liberal, relaxed Fockers.
- Audiences will love pretty much everyone in the movie, from the sexually daring parents to their straight-laced, teenaged son to the hunky plumber whose tool kit contains a couple of surprises.
- Due to her strict and pious upbringing Edith was a brisk, businesslike and rather straight-laced woman, serious with a no-nonsense attitude but still well liked by all who knew her.
- ‘You can be the most straight-laced person in the world but still find stuff like that funny,’ says Robson.
- ‘It was the only erotic program,’ Ananich said, recalling how strait-laced television was back then.
- To their more gung-ho colleagues in the financial sector, this strait-laced group is little more than a regulatory irritant, more interested in stopping them making money than helping them.
- Once you turn the political contest into a strict test of personal character and behaviour, even the apparently most strait-laced leader is likely to come a cropper in the end.
- Straightforward and straight-laced, Haeg is not the mysterious type.
- She was very prim and straight-laced looking, and her entire personality tended to reinforce her appearance.
- ‘What I had done was to signal a shift in our mindset to being more relaxed and open-minded, and less strait-laced and Victorian,’ he said.
- The institution represented apartheid-sanctioned entertainment with the local idiosyncrasy of dual-language, Christian parochialism and a straight-laced morality as part of the deal.
- It gets worse when Ian's straight-laced parents enter the fray.
- For two decades, the BBC's voice of youth enforced a moral code that your average Victorian aunt would have thought strait-laced.
- And yet she's also, in a strange way, a highly moral person; it's just that she doesn't confuse morality with strait-laced cowardice and want of adventure.
- The straight-laced history of the capital became a focus for dreaming, a site for imagining a city which could better shape the lives of its inhabitants.
- It is strangely unclassifiable television - a caustically comic, surreptitiously sudsy thriller that has alienated a whole tranche of strait-laced Americans and so delighted many more.
- Although the official site is comprehensive and impressive, it is straight-laced compared to the more flamboyant style of the fansite.
Synonyms prim and proper, prim, proper, prudish, priggish, puritanical, moralistic, prissy, mimsy, niminy-piminy, shockable, victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy
Usage As an adjective, strait means ‘narrow or cramped’ and ‘strict or rigorous’: the idea behind strait-laced and straitjacket is of being tightly laced or confined. As strait is now old-fashioned and unfamiliar, however, people often interpret it as the more usual word straight. Straight-laced and straightjacket are now generally accepted in standard English, and the spelling straight-laced is more common than strait-laced in the Oxford English Corpus |