STRAITLACED

priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian

(adjective) exaggeratedly proper; “my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn’t approve of my miniskirts”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

straitlaced (comparative more straitlaced, superlative most straitlaced)

Alternative spelling of straight-laced

Source: Wiktionary


Strait"-laced`, a.

1. Bound with stays. Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke.

2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] Fuller.

3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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1 February 2025

GRIP

(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding; “a good grip on French history”; “they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities”; “he was in the grip of a powerful emotion”; “a terrible power had her in its grasp”


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