straitlaced
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See also: strait-laced
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]straitlaced (comparative more straitlaced, superlative most straitlaced)
- Alternative spelling of straight-laced.
- 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 164:
- He played the straitlaced partner of the rowdy hero, always nagging him about paperwork and protocol.