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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Strait-laced \Strait"-laced`\, a.
     1. Bound with stays.
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              Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she
              thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are


              strait-laced.                         --Locke.
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     2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] --Fuller.
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     3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  strait-laced
       adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
             approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim}, {prissy},
              {prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straitlaced},
              {straightlaced}, {straight-laced}, {tight-laced}, {victorian}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  straitlaced
       adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
             approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim}, {prissy},
              {prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {strait-laced},
              {straightlaced}, {straight-laced}, {tight-laced}, {victorian}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "straitlaced":
     Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted,
     borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf,
     deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical,
     firm, fundamentalist, genteel, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox,
     illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, iron,
     ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, libertine, literalist,
     literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded,
     mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted,
     narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
     obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial,
     petty, precisianist, precisianistic, prig, priggish, prim, prissy,
     procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic,
     puritan, puritanic, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorist,
     rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, shortsighted,
     small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked,
     straightlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic,
     uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting,
     unyielding
  
  

















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