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straitlaced a. 严格的,刻板的,固执的 严格的,刻板的,固执的 straitlaced adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; " my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn' t approve of my miniskirts" [ synonym: { priggish}, { prim}, { prissy}, { prudish}, { puritanical}, { square- toed}, { straitlaced}, { strait- laced}, { straightlaced}, { straight- laced}, { tight- laced}, { victorian}] Strait- laced \ Strait"- laced`\, a. 1. Bound with stays. [ 1913 Webster] Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well- shaped that are strait- laced. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [ R.] -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals. [ 1913 Webster] 98 Moby Thesaurus words for " straitlaced": Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist, genteel, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox, illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, libertine, literalist, literalistic, little, little- minded, mean, mean- minded, mean- spirited, mid- Victorian, muscle- bound, narrow, narrow- hearted, narrow- minded, narrow- souled, narrow- spirited, nearsighted, obdurate, obstinate, old- maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial, petty, precisianist, precisianistic, prig, priggish, prim, prissy, procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, shortsighted, small, small- minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff- necked, straightlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting, unyielding
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