strait-laced

or straight-laced

[ streyt-leyst ]

/ ˈstreɪtˈleɪst /

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adjective

excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.

tightly laced, as a bodice.

wearing tightly laced garments.

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Origin of strait-laced

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

OTHER WORDS FROM strait-laced

strait-lac·ed·ly

[streyt-ley-sid-lee, -leyst-lee], /ˈstreɪtˈleɪ sɪd li, -ˈleɪst li/, adverbstrait-lac·ed·ness, noun

Words nearby strait-laced

straining sill, strait, straiten, straitjacket, strait-lace, strait-laced, Straits dollar, Straits Settlements, strake, Stralsund, stramash

How to use strait-laced in a sentence

They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the stay lace in two.
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Nonetheless, Turing killed himself on June 7, 1954, in a deliberately prepared way, by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
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About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.
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Here, the whiskey-laced meat masters give you their favorite recipes.
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Next he laced on first the right skate, with a pad of cotton under the tongue, and then the left.
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The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.
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Directions for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.
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On the south-side of Clarence Strait the land is low, like the coast to the eastward.
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British Dictionary definitions for strait-laced

strait-laced

straight-laced

adjective

prudish or puritanical

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strait-laced

or straight-laced

Origin of strait-laced

OTHER WORDS FROM strait-laced

Words nearby strait-laced

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How to use strait-laced in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for strait-laced

straight-laced