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straightforward |
straightforwardly |
straightforwardness |
straighthorn |
straightjacket |
straightlaced
| straightly
| straightness
| straightway
| straightways
| straik
straightlaced
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective straightlaced has 1 sense
- straightlaced(s = adj.all) priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
THESAURUS
straightlaced
dour, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, stiff, straitlaced, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding
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