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How to use straight-laced in a sentence

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She knew that a voice that annoying could come from none other than the preppy, straight-laced brown-noser.
Boots and other shoes are generally straight-laced, which looser laces on Sambas.
In the sequel, a clash of cultures ensues when the straight-laced, conservative Byrnes family meets the liberal, relaxed Fockers.
She was very prim and straight-laced looking, and her entire personality tended to reinforce her appearance.
Although the official site is comprehensive and impressive, it is straight-laced compared to the more flamboyant style of the fansite.
William Parker is a straight-laced cop with dreams of ridding L.A of its crime and endemic corruption.
One of my students started senior year straight-laced and dreaming of studying engineering at Georgia Tech.
I'd had the straight-laced Freudian type, the holistic type and the latest one had been a nut for solving things with shock therapy.
At points in your life you can view libraries as quite stuffy and straight-laced.
No one had strayed from a straight-laced anthem interpretation, let alone on national television.
And to rigidly enforce the pink and blue boxes: the boring binary, straight-laced order.
The perfect finish for a straight-laced bottom or a fashion forward bubble shape.
Mr. Earle's straight-laced tendencies are evident in both his colleague's reminiscences and in his interview with Mr. Small.
Thwarted by straight-laced parents, vivacious Flo eventually eloped to Philly with a doctor and then divorced.
He plays a straight-laced risk assessor on honeymoon, who finds that his new wife takes a shine to the first beefcake she meets.
There were straight-laced, apolitical students.
But don't expect a prissy, straight-laced milieu.
The straight-laced history of the capital became a focus for dreaming, a site for imagining a city which could better shape the lives of its inhabitants.
Straightforward and straight-laced, Haeg is not the mysterious type.
Though to all appearances I probably appeared pretty straight-laced and tightly wound.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The North American, beneath his cold and straight-laced appearance, conceals a warm and enthusiastic heart.
Now I dare say there are straight-laced people who will be shocked at the idea of a woman playing ten-pins.
I suppose French morality is not of that straight-laced description which is shocked at trifles.
In fact, he was so merry that, by the straight-laced Puritans, he was thought ungodly.
Goodness, you can't afford to be as straight-laced as all that, in this town.
But Christopher Wellwyn's heart is too full of humanity to admit of such a straight-laced attitude.
Batty Jo and straight-laced Brian visit the farm owned by his formidable Aunt Nesta.
One that has been discovered very recently is that the straight-faced are the straight-laced.
The straight-laced star says she will let her hair down when she graduates from Brown University in Providence later this year.
Typically attributed as semi-conservative and straight-laced, Nancy Ajram has taken on new wardrobe territory this year.
Toronto's new leader, by contrast, is as straight-laced and as boring a guy as they could have found.
Now, the most prominent woman in his life is his assistant, Detective Kristin Sims, a straight-laced investigator 20 years younger than her boss' car.
She is also attracted to his best friend, the straight-laced Captain Gilbert Evans and despite choosing to marry one, she falls into the arms of the other.
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