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strait-laced [-ˈleɪst] ADJ pej

strait-laced

strait-laced

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The school's strait-laced reputation is a major selling point in athletic recruiting. en.wikipedia.org

The song was a strait-laced piano ballad about losing a love to the road life. en.wikipedia.org

One day someone asked him to teach drumming to a strait-laced corporate group. www.smh.com.au

His reputation as being strait-laced is based partly on the fact he has never consumed alcohol and works hard to look after himself. www.telegraph.co.uk

And the girls feel they have to comply -- or seem hopelessly strait-laced. www.dailymail.co.uk

Early roles were rather strait-laced, he then sometimes played his "snide" character: quite slimy and smarmy with a distinctive nasal voice. en.wikipedia.org

We are sure there are a few strait-laced, hardworking baggage-free butchers awaiting their chance with bated breath! www.breakingnews.ie

She comes from a well-bred, strait-laced family and becomes lost in the woods one day during an attempt to escape her smothered lifestyle. en.wikipedia.org

Now the son is engaged to be married, so how to introduce his unusual parents to his fiancee's strait-laced parents? www.broadwayworld.com

In a medium whose heroes tended to be serious and strait-laced, he created three who were wonderfully reckless and exuberant. en.wikipedia.org

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