straitlaced in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

straitlaced in the PONS Dictionary

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This is a straitlaced beer but pleasant and balanced.
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I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, precuneus, valedictory.
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Here, where the government is the booze business, many of us still recall liquor stores so straitlaced, the demon bottles were kept out of view.
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It was a tragic story that showed a different side to the usually straitlaced detective, adding a new dimension to his character, and away from all the crime-solving.
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He is extremely straitlaced and responsible.
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More than 40 years since its premiere, this greatest of all rock musicals can still inspire violent antipathy among the straitlaced.
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I was always the straitlaced good kid out of all my siblings.
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She is seen from above and behind, and her back is straitlaced and proper.
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The whole show seemed like a great trumpet blast of defiance and freedom that proved joyously infectious even to straitlaced public schoolboys like us.
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The outcome was that the "buyers" offered the flirts (dubbed "likeable losers") 20% less, on average, than what they offered the more straitlaced sellers.
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