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Thesaurus: strait-laced

Bound with stays.

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Definitions

  1. a. Bound with stays.
  2. a. Restricted; stiff; constrained.
  3. a. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
  4. adj. exaggeratedly proper
  5. j:100 s exaggeratedly proper