Similar words: strait, dire straits, straitened, strait of hormuz, keep a straight face, trait, traitor, portrait. Meaning: adj. exaggeratedly proper.
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1, My aunt's very straitlaced - she'd be shocked if you mentioned sex.
2, Straitlaced Amos, for example, was less stereotypical than his pals, and Sapphire spoke nothing like her husband.
3, My straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts.
4, My straitlaced aunt anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts.
5, The Don was straitlaced about sex.
6, Don Corleone, notoriously straitlaced in such matters, though his stout wife was screaming joyfully with the others,(http://sentencedict.com/straitlaced.html) disappeared tactfully into the house.
7, Dad looked straitlaced in his short-sleeved white shirt, skinny tie, and plastic pocket liner holding a pen, a notebook, and sometimes a slide rule.
8, It was preceded by this, his only other novel, a work more straitlaced in literary form but just as shockingly original in content.
9, Not " getting " deception or nuance, they are straitlaced and humorless.
10, Our unconventional behaviour did in fact shock some of our more straitlaced friends.
More similar words: strait, dire straits, straitened, strait of hormuz, keep a straight face, trait, traitor, portrait, strain, restrain, strained, straight, constrain, straighten, constraint, straightaway, straight line, unrestrained, straighten up, constrainedly, straightforward, wraith, braced, defaced, disgraced, place, glace, palace, solace, replace.