Sentence examples for kind of uptight from inspiring English sources

If they're all kind of uptight and not much fun, well, that's the price you pay for seriousness.

In short, many of these books are trying to nudge companies away from being the kind of uptight, petty organizations depicted by Scott Adams in his Dilbert cartoons.

What are you, some kind of uptight feminist?

Her parents were rich, Upper East Siders and kind of uptight.

We just kind of got uptight.

He is a great writer and kind of an uptight guy.

I know I play a lot of uptight, kind of bitchy characters, but Deirdre... she's panicking inside.

Fashion goes in cycles, and there's so much of a return to this stately elegance that men want to dress like, but not in a stuffy, uptight kind of way.

You don't have to become BFF with your greatest enemy to work on being more friendly to people in your orbit -- whether it's your uptight math teacher, your crotchety uncle, or that kind-of quiet girl who is on the fringes of your social circle.

My attitude to horses has, I admit, been damaged by exposure to a certain kind of horsey person: braying women in uptight clothes, red-faced toffs in white cravats, all wearing those foul black helmets with a ribbon on top.

But Adam and Kristina can be uptight, and I kind of thought Kristina would freak out.