Sentence examples for be uptight from inspiring English sources

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be uptight

adjective

Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.

  • Don't be so uptight! You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.

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"Don't be uptight".

"You can't be uptight.

Don't be uptight, don't be bourgeois".

"We shouldn't be uptight about music," she said.

I may be uptight – OK, I am uptight.

George said, 'Life's just a party, so you shouldn't be uptight about how people dress'").

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Maybe it's uptight guys from upstate NY struggling against their own latent uptightness?

Sober, I'm uptight.

The atmosphere was uptight, threatening.

In fact, I was uptight, anxious, scared.

"I thought she was uptight or something.

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