Example Sentences

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I like uptightness because it’s part of my experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Nothing works, and she insists it is all a joke, because my uptightness is “hilarious.”

From Slate • May 4, 2021

We may congratulate ourselves for being beyond such uptightness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 17, 2015

In summer, the Milanese let go of their bourgeois uptightness.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2012

Unless, of course, they are clambering on Letts, who, though he admires the performers' verve, is left alone to defend the dwindling causeway of decency and uptightness.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2010