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Definition of Straight-laced
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 Straight-laced
1. Adjective. Having narrow views on moral matters; prudish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straight-laced
Literary usage of Straight-laced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, John Bayly Moore (1822)
"That position, however, has been objected to by Hale and Hawkins, as being too
straight-laced, but it well becomes a Judge to be straight-laced on such a ..."
2. Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents by George Jean Nathan (1917)
"Founding his composition upon a theme familiar to the vaudevilles, the theme to
wit of the two mismated couples and of the straight-laced husband of couple ..."
3. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1903)
"People have thought him straight-laced and sectarian, but in fact every man who
... straight-laced Presbyterians are supposed to be somewhat prejudiced ..."
4. Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen by Harry Hieover (1846)
"If by straight-laced you mean a dislike to such companions as I am sorry to see
you associate with, and such pursuits as I regret to see you follow, ..."
5. The Universalist Companion, with an Almanac and Register, Containing the by Aaron Burt Grosh (1858)
"The more straight-laced the theology, the more straight laced the ladies. The more
fire and fury preached, the more feath ers and flounces flourish. ..."
6. John Cassell's Illustrated History of England by John Frederick Smith, William Howitt (1859)
"The ladies in the voluptuous reign of Charles II. abandoned the straight-laced
dresses with the straight-laced manners of their puritan predecessors. ..."
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