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straight-laced
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Adjective straight-laced has 1 sense
- straight-laced(s = adj.all) priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
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