as in wet blanket
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Recent Examples of straight arrow
Yoon-tak is a straight arrow kind of kid.
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
Cooke, who drives a red sports car, smokes cigarettes and carries a flask in his jacket, stands in obvious temperamental contrast to Malcolm, who is both the straight arrow and the nerd of the group, offering them vanilla ice cream and showing off his new Rolleiflex camera.
—New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
Progress did not proceed in a straight arrow from bad times then to good times now.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2023
Photos from his high school yearbooks depict a bespectacled straight arrow with a mission-control haircut and a fondness for cardigans and chinos.
—Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
Cooke, who drives a red sports car, smokes cigarettes and carries a flask in his jacket, stands in obvious temperamental contrast to Malcolm, who is both the straight arrow and the nerd of the group, offering them vanilla ice cream and showing off his new Rolleiflex camera.
—New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
Progress did not proceed in a straight arrow from bad times then to good times now.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2023
Photos from his high school yearbooks depict a bespectacled straight arrow with a mission-control haircut and a fondness for cardigans and chinos.
—Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straight arrow
Noun
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It’s stated routinely in my upcoming book The Deficit Delusion that the centralized and politicized allocation of goods, services and labor in sub-optimal fashion by politicians lays a wet blanket on economic growth.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Just wait until tech investors are smothered by the ultimate wet blanket: the uncharted territory of Trump tariffs.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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Give the Original ‘Twister’ a Spin Barbara Peeters is no prude.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
19 July 2024
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Despite a handful of prudes trying their best to spoil the fun.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
4 July 2024
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“Straight arrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straight%20arrow. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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