| Launched in 1979, Viz has parodied the straitlaced British comics of the post-war period such as The Beano and The Dandy. |
| He was not straitlaced, or mealy-mouthed, or overburthened with scruples. |
| I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. |
| His generally straitlaced nature allowed him little tolerance for even lovable rogues. |
| He plays straitlaced museum curator Ian Bennet, who falls for a local woman while negotiating the return of a Maori carving to a remote part of New Zealand. |
| A graceless, sprawling city more than two hundred miles north of Chihuahua City, Juárez is as garish as the capital is straitlaced. |
