straightlaced
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
straightlaced
adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim},
{prissy}, {prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed},
{straitlaced}, {strait-laced}, {straightlaced},
{straight-laced}, {tight-laced}, {victorian}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "straightlaced":
dour, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, impliable, inexorable,
inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, muscle-bound,
obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic,
puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic,
rigorous, rockbound, stiff, straitlaced, stubborn, unbending,
uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding
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