Usually means: Strictly adhering to conventional standards.
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  3. Straightlaced, straightlaced: Wordnik
  4. straightlaced: Wiktionary
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  8. straightlaced: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of straight-laced [Having narrow views on moral matters; prudish.]

Similar:
straitlaced, tight-laced, prissy, proper, prim, priggish, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, Victorian, more...

Opposite:
unconventional, liberal, open-minded, free-spirited

Types:
prudish, stuffy, boring, conventional, square, more...

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Similar:
straitlaced, tight-laced, prissy, proper, prim, priggish, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, Victorian, more...

Opposite:
unconventional, liberal, open-minded, free-spirited

Types:
prudish, stuffy, boring, conventional, square, more...



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