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  • adjective Alternative spelling of strait-laced.

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Examples

  • The spelling is "straitlaced", not "straight-laced", though again both are in common use.

    chug chug chug 2007

  • Although you can't really claim that the album gave us "straitlaced" versions of the classics, can you?!

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • It's as though he is mocking The Edge for being so "straitlaced" that he's actually turned numb.

    Entertainment magazine The Cheers 2008

  • "straitlaced", because she would not evade rules or join in certain doubtful undertakings.

    The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907

  • As Eric, also 32, flew toward Austin, he was worried that his rockin’ friend would still see him as some kind of straitlaced sellout.

    Raiders of the Lost Backyard Windolf, Jim 2004

  • As Eric, also 32, flew toward Austin, he was worried that his rockin’ friend would still see him as some kind of straitlaced sellout.

    Raiders of the Lost Backyard Windolf, Jim 2004

  • The religion taught at this megachurch is more about lifestyle than laws or liturgy, and though the theology it espouses is biblically literalist and straitlaced evangelical, this fact is emphasized to varying degrees, depending on the context.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • It was another of the witnesses, the novelist, feminist and anti-censorship campaigner Joan Smith, who complained that tabloid morality – such as it is – is locked in the straitlaced 1950s while the rest of us have moved on.

    Leveson inquiry: Hugh Grant delivers damning testimony 2011

  • A straitlaced war hero turned homicide detective named Cole Phelps, who is played by Aaron Staton Ken Cosgrove from "Mad Men".

    Gamer as Gumshoe Kevin Sintumuang 2011

  • Old Isaac Ford was straitlaced and all the rest, and

    The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride 2010

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