Tight-laced

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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