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Adjective: straightlaced
  1. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my straightlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts";
    - priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed [archaic], straitlaced, strait-laced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian, bluenosed [US, informal], uptight [informal]

See also: proper

Nearest

straighten up
straightener
straight-faced
straight-fluted drill
straightforward
straightforwardly
straightforwardness
straight-from-the-shoulder
straight-grained
straightjacket
straightlaced
straight-legged
straight-line method
straight-line method of depreciation
straightly
straightness
straight-out
straight-up
straightway
strain