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Another word for strait-laced

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strait-laced

modif.

strict, severe, stiff; see prudish.

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Another word for strait-laced

adjective

Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form:

bluenosed, genteel, old-maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, stuffy, Victorian. Idiom: prim and proper. See plain

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Darcy (played by Shenae Grimes) was introduced to viewers as a strait-laced Christian, who becomes captain of the Spirit Squad and Queen Bee of the school.
From Sutton, but Sterne, in spite of his double duties, seems to have been a frequent visitor there, and to have found in his not too strait-laced friend a highly congenial companion.

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