straight-laced

[streyt-leyst]

adjective

1. strait-laced.

straight-laced

adjective

1. a variant spelling of strait-laced

Other Word Forms

• straight-lacedly adverb
• straight-lacedness noun

Example Sentences

In 2004, she said, Capriglione came into the club where she was working and stood out as “a very straight-laced businessman.”

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“It’s a bonus when I’m able to stretch myself and feel like I’m being challenged,” Poulter says of his character, the most straight-laced figure in the film, but imbued by Poulter with a surprising vulnerability.

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Paul is a straight-laced square, and Ford looks like he’s having a blast every episode pushing Paul to his limits.

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Judge voices the central character himself, a straight-laced patriarch of a Texas family struggling to maintain his values in a changing world.

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Tory was known as a straight-laced, button down moderate conservative — almost the polar opposite of previous Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use.

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