Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A morally upright person.
- noun A person regarded as being extremely conventional.
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- noun idiomatic A person of
conventional morality
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- noun a frank and honest person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the phrase straight as an arrow.]
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