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straight-laced

[ streyt-leyst ]

adjective



straight-laced

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of strait-laced
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ٰ-·· [streyt, -, ley, -sid-lee, -, leyst, -lee], adverb
  • ٰ-Ļ·Ա noun
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Paul is a straight-laced square, and Ford looks like he’s having a blast every episode pushing Paul to his limits.

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Judge voices the central character himself, a straight-laced patriarch of a Texas family struggling to maintain his values in a changing world.

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Tory was known as a straight-laced, button down moderate conservative — almost the polar opposite of previous Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use.

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Case is the embittered, thick-skinned trauma survivor to Bob’s straight-laced, God-fearing lawman.

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Did you read that New Yorker piece about how it was all made-up and it was this very straight-laced?

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