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straight arrow
noun
A person of conventional morality
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Exact(41)
He was a straight arrow.
But he's an angelic straight arrow too.
"He is ethically a straight arrow.
"The cleanest cut, the straight arrow guy.
Mr. Simon cultivated a reputation as an intellectual straight arrow.
Mr. Dixon is, by all accounts, a straight arrow.
Similar(16)
He came across as a straight- arrow type but must have known that MMAR wasn't entirely straight.
Duffy is not a straight-arrow of a person, himself.
Skye catches straight-arrow Agent Ward thumbing a paperback.
Shinseki embodied the nineteen-fifties ideal of the straight-arrow, all-American boy.
Steele was a personable man, and he gave the impression of being a straight-arrow type.
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