Similar words: straitlaced, straight-laced, strait, straits, straiten, straitened, dire straits, straitjacket. Meaning: adj. exaggeratedly proper.
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1. He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.
2. She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow.
3. The strait-laced senator, seldom at a loss for words, appeared uncomfortable.
4. A strait-laced family is invited to spend the winter with Elizabeth and Pardner is assumed to be her husband.
5. Some people may consider me strait-laced, but I'm just obeying the law.
6. China has long been one of the most strait-laced nations around.
7. That Jeffersonian sentiment seems to have influenced even China's normally strait-laced, rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), which has just wrapped up its annual session.
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