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Definition of Straightlaced
1. Adjective. Exaggeratedly proper. "My straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Similar to: Proper
Derivative terms: Priggishness, Primness, Primness, Prudishness, Puritan
Definition of Straightlaced
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straightlaced
Literary usage of Straightlaced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Cambridge Historical Society (Mass.) (1907)
"There has been a town meeting of Dr. Holmes's parish to induce the good man to
give up some of his straightlaced notions — particularly to exchange as he ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... Martha fell into evil repute with some straightlaced people in consequence of
this close friendship ; but it is one of the cases in which evil thinking ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... straightlaced to dine out on a Sunday ? If not, will you honour us with your
company at eight o'clock ? ' And though he repeated" the words 'eight ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1844)
"There is nothing, in any of his poetical works, really immoral or licentious,*
but there is frequently * We have frequently been amused by the straightlaced ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"Or possibly the author Is simply using her creation as a mouthpiece for her own
ideas, because had Dorothy herself been really so straightlaced, she would ..."
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