Associations to the word «Straightlaced»

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Wiktionary

STRAIGHTLACED, adjective. Alternative form of straight-laced

Dictionary definition

STRAIGHTLACED, adjective. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne