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

See also: proper

Nearest

Strait of Dover
Strait of Georgia
Strait of Gibraltar
Strait of Hormuz
Strait of Magellan
Strait of Malacca
Strait of Messina
Strait of Ormuz
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Straits of Dover
Straits of Gibraltar
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