Sentence example with the word 'straitlaced'

straitlaced

authoritarian, deaf, genteel, iron, mean, nearsighted, precisianistic, purist, rigorous, stiff-necked, ungenerous

Definition adj. exaggeratedly proper

Last update: July 27, 2015


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Their wives, Paulette for Paul and Ginger for straitlaced Joseph, were a contrast in themselves.   [Please select]

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No corn-husking or wedding was complete without dancing, although members of certain of the more straitlaced religious sects already frowned upon the diversion.   [Please select]

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A few people are straitlaced, and a good many feel they have been taken in.   [Please select]

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Why had Cliffe been invited by these very respectable and straitlaced people the Grosvilles.   [Please select]

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