adjective
exaggeratedly proper
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my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
• Syn:
↑priggish, ↑prim, ↑prissy, ↑puritanical, ↑square-toed, ↑straitlaced, ↑strait-laced, ↑straightlaced, ↑straight-laced, ↑tight-laced, ↑victorian
• Similar to: ↑proper
• Derivationally related forms: ↑puritan (for: ↑puritanical), ↑prudishness, ↑primness (for: ↑prim), ↑priggishness (for: ↑priggish)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.