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straitlaced

Entry Word:: straitlaced
Function:: adjective

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or straightlaced

given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals<a very straitlaced old lady who believed women shouldn't even show a bare ankle in public>Synonymsprim, prudish, puritanicalRelated Wordspriggish, staid, stuffy; genteel, proper, refined; decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuousNear Antonymsliberated, permissive; bad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, loose, wicked; debauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted

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