Strait-laced meaning

strāt'lāst'
Excessively strict in behavior, morality, or opinions.
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Having or wearing a tightly laced garment.
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Narrowly strict or severe in behavior or moral views.
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Alternative spelling of strait-laced.
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Alternative spelling of straight-laced.
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Bound with stays.
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Origin of strait-laced

  • strait tightly (obsolete) -laced (from lace)
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Strait-laced Sentence Examples

  • 8 In spite of these restrictions and of an electoral system which tended to make these assemblies as strait-laced and reactionary as any government bureau, the zemstvos did good work, notably educational, in those provinces where the proprietors were inspired with a more liberal spirit.

  • from Sutton, but Sterne, in spite of his double duties, seems to have been a frequent visitor there, and to have found in his not too strait-laced friend a highly congenial companion.

  • Darcy (played by Shenae Grimes) was introduced to viewers as a strait-laced Christian, who becomes captain of the Spirit Squad and Queen Bee of the school.

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