Sentence examples for been uptight from inspiring English sources

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been 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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Even in training the lads have been uptight.

"They haven't been uptight about it, and there's no sense of even being uptight even now.

Prairie Dawn, who has always been uptight, expands her horizons as Rosita brought her abuela's tamales and frijoles to the meal.

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

Sober, I'm uptight.

"Don't be uptight".

"You can't be uptight.

The atmosphere was uptight, threatening.

I may be uptight – OK, I am uptight.

In fact, I was uptight, anxious, scared.

"I thought she was uptight or something.

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