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or straightlaced
as in puritanical
given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals
a very straitlaced old lady who believed that cleavage was something that should be shown by rock crystals, not respectable women
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Recent Examples of straitlaced
This timeless comedic tandem — where Lucy's zany antics collided with Ricky's straitlaced demeanor — kept generations in stitches for a remarkable 180 episodes.
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James Mercadante and Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2023
Compton plays Raina, a young American woman who travels through Greece and aboard a barge with her straitlaced American boyfriend (Gary Collins) and a gay French artist (Gian Pietro Calasso).
—The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
Based on the book by Mary Rogers, and a remake of the 1976 film, Disney’s version directed by Mark Waters follows a straitlaced psychologist, Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis), and her punk teenage daughter Anna (Lohan), who switch bodies under an accidental spell.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 5 Aug. 2023
The beloved cast included two Alabama natives, Jim Nabors and George Lindsey (as naive cousins Gomer and Goober Pyle), Ron Howard (as Andy’s son Opie), Don Knotts (as jittery Deputy Barney Fife) and Frances Bavier (as straitlaced and loving Aunt Bee).
—Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2021
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James Mercadante and Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2023
Compton plays Raina, a young American woman who travels through Greece and aboard a barge with her straitlaced American boyfriend (Gary Collins) and a gay French artist (Gian Pietro Calasso).
—The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
Based on the book by Mary Rogers, and a remake of the 1976 film, Disney’s version directed by Mark Waters follows a straitlaced psychologist, Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis), and her punk teenage daughter Anna (Lohan), who switch bodies under an accidental spell.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 5 Aug. 2023
The beloved cast included two Alabama natives, Jim Nabors and George Lindsey (as naive cousins Gomer and Goober Pyle), Ron Howard (as Andy’s son Opie), Don Knotts (as jittery Deputy Barney Fife) and Frances Bavier (as straitlaced and loving Aunt Bee).
—Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2021
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Gein was born in 1906 to an alcoholic father and an allegedly fanatically puritanical mother, according to the MGM+ docuseries Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein.Jordana Comiter, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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Salman seems more inclined than his predecessor to appease the ultraconservative and puritanical Wahhabi clerical establishment and other conservative Islamist forces in the country.Richard Sokolsky, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2016
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The Comstock Act is a relic, not just of a more prudish era in American history, but of an age when the sort of individual rights that modern Americans take for granted effectively did not exist.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 May 2024
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Emily, perhaps true to her prudish Adderall-y millennial type, is not especially flirty.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
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In the spring, the storied hotel will complete a more than five-year, $550 million renovation, restoration and expansion on its sprawling 28 acres, extending its capacity to 938 guest rooms across the original Victorian building and four newer developments.Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2024
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That was a play which, in the first act, dramatized this famous Victorian song.Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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The couple shares a son. 09 of 13 Alison Brie (Trudy Campbell) Community star Alison Brie played Pete’s wife, prim and proper daddy’s girl Trudy.Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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Before each performance, the scene is set by a narrator who speaks in a prim, puritanical accent reminiscent of a bygone era.Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Straitlaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straitlaced. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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