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Definition of Straight person

1. Noun. A heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Straight Person

Literary usage of Straight person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"Lord Holland (' Foreign Reminiscences '), who saw her the year before her death, says that it consisted exclusively in a fair skin, a straight person, ..."

2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1851)
"Her beauty, however extolled, consisted, I suspect, exclusively in a fair skia, a straight person ..."

3. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1851)
"Her beauty, however extolled, consisted, I suspect, exclusively in a fair skin, a straight person, and a stately air, which her admirers termed dignity, ..."

4. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... who saw her the year before her death, says that it consisted exclusively in a fair skin, a straight person, and a stately air. ..."

5. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"... whom we may call Mr. Densmore, had everywhere the reputation of being an exceedingly clean and straight person, this did not lessen her aversion to him. ..."

6. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatent by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"... whom we may call Mr. Densmore, had everywhere the reputation of being an exceedingly clean and straight person, this did not lessen her aversion to him. ..."

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