| 单词 | strait-laced |
| 释义 | strait-laced (once / 29184 pages) adj WORD FAMILY strait-laced USAGE EXAMPLESThe strait-laced James once famously quipped during Apple Cup week that he was “a 2,000-word underdog” to the loquacious, folksy Walden. Seattle Times(Nov 23, 2016) The exchange was an intriguing departure from what had been a mostly strait-laced evening on Fox News. New York Times(Nov 09, 2016) Almost all of the book’s characters speak fluent brag and dis, with the exceptions of strait-laced Isaiah and his beloved older brother, Marcus. New York Times(Oct 31, 2016) adj exaggeratedly proper Syn priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian proper marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness |
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