straitlaced

straitlaced
    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}]
    

Strait-laced \Strait"-laced`\, a.
   1. Bound with stays.
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            Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she
            thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are
            strait-laced.                         --Locke.
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   2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] --Fuller.
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   3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
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98 Moby Thesaurus words for "straitlaced":
      Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted,
      borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf,
      deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical,
      firm, fundamentalist, genteel, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox,
      illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, iron,
      ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, libertine, literalist,
      literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded,
      mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted,
      narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
      obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial,
      petty, precisianist, precisianistic, prig, priggish, prim, prissy,
      procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic,
      puritan, puritanic, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorist,
      rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, shortsighted,
      small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked,
      straightlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic,
      uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting,
      unyielding