The meaning of Straitlaced

adjective

Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.

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A conventional morality had dictated behaviour

adjective

Following the usual practices of the past

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We were raised in a conventional, middle-class family., it’s a conventional hot-water heater (= of …

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Relating to accepted or traditional ways of doing something

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Conventional accounting/business practices/methods, it is estimated that over one-third of sub-prim…

adjective

Having or showing characteristics considered to be characteristic of a governess, especially primness or strictness.

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Her governessy tone

adjective

Typical of or like a governess (= a woman, especially in the past, living with a family and teaching their children at home)

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This sounded so governessy., she plays the strict, governessy character wonderfully well.

adjective

Rather feeble and prim or affected.

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It's dry, bloodless, and emotionally disengaged; but most annoyingly of all, it's self-consciously …

adjective

Overfond of making moral judgements about others' behaviour; too ready to moralize.

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A moralistic stance on advertising

adjective

Involved with judging other people’s morals and telling them how to behave

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American foreign policy had been rigidly moralistic.

adjective

Very formal and correct in behaviour, often in a way that is not sincere

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The chef had no patience with customers making niminy-piminy comments about his dishes., he adopts …

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Self-righteously moralistic and superior.

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A priggish little pedant

adjective

Like a prig

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I found him priggish and cold.

adjective

Feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct.

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A very prim and proper lady

verb

Purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.

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Laurie primmed up his mouth

adjective

Fussily and excessively respectable.

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A middle-class family with two prissy children

adjective

Denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine.

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She's never had a proper job

adverb

Satisfactorily or correctly.

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My eyes were all blurry and i couldn't see proper

noun

The part of a church service that varies with the season or feast.

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We go to the high mass, with plainsong propers sung by the ritual choir

adjective

Having or revealing a tendency to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity; excessively concerned with sexual propriety.

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The prudish moral climate of the late 19th century

adjective

Easily shocked by rude things, especially anything relating to sex

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I don't consider myself prudish but i do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.

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Having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.

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His puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation

adjective

Behaving like a schoolmarm

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Stop being so schoolmarmish and bossy.

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Having characteristics commonly associated with schoolmistresses, especially those of formality and briskness.

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Her crisp, rather schoolmistressy manner

adjective

Liable to be shocked, upset, or outraged.

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I did not consider myself a shockable person

adjective

(of an abnormal heart rhythm that prevents or severely impairs the pumping action of the heart) able to be converted to a more normal rhythm by an electrical shock from a defibrillator, thus restoring the functioning of the heart.

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He still had a shockable rhythm when paramedics arrived

adjective

Easily shocked or offended

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I have to be careful what i say to my mother - she's very shockable., knowing how shockable the pub…

adjective

Relating to the reign of queen victoria.

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A victorian house

noun

A person who lived during the victorian period.

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The victorians had a passion for documenting, cataloguing and classifying the world around them

noun

A person from the australian state of victoria.

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The facility has taught thousands of victorians to use the internet