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adjective
Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
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You should be kind, but don't be uptight with all the "polite" rules.
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Sometimes, though, the tension just causes the musicians to be uptight, to seem at cross purposes with a conductor.
"Don't be uptight".
"You can't be uptight.
I may be uptight – OK, I am uptight.
Don't be uptight or negative.
Don't stress and be uptight.
Hypnotherapy sessions, in which descriptions of what happens to the intestines when we're uptight are given, along with methods of coping, are useful.
England are uptight, and it's unthinkable that, with a game in the balance, they could counter-attack with the certainty shown by Flintoff and Jones in 2004-05 or, too use a specific example, Vaughan and Trescothick at Johannesburg.
News reaches this very politically correct corner of Europe that we are being too uptight with our sexual harassment laws.
Sober, I'm uptight.
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