单词 | straightlaced |
释义 | straightlaced (once / 537242 pages) adj WORD FAMILY straightlaced USAGE EXAMPLESIn fact, with its focus on order, perfection, and control, it’s straightlaced to the extreme. Scientific American(Nov 04, 2015) I had looked to do as much when I came to town, being, I must confess, as little straightlaced as most young men. Hope, Anthony, Simon Dale(2010) The times were not of the straightlaced order and no one expected from an actress wonders of chastity or conventionality. Robins, Edward, The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield(2010) adj exaggeratedly proper Syn priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian proper marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness |
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