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Discover LudwigThe word "straight-laced" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe someone who is very strict, prudish, or adheres strictly to accepted standards of behaviour. For example, "My aunt is very straight-laced; she never lets us do anything she considers inappropriate."
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straight-laced
adjective
Having narrow views on moral matters; prudish.
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Boots and other shoes are generally straight-laced, which looser laces on Sambas.
There were straight-laced, apolitical students.
But don't expect a prissy, straight-laced milieu.
"At points in your life you can view libraries as quite stuffy and straight-laced.
"No one had strayed from a straight-laced anthem interpretation, let alone on national television.
And to rigidly enforce the pink and blue boxes: the boring binary, straight-laced order.
Harold is living a straight-laced married-guy life; Kumar is being Kumar.
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But he agrees that Leveson is not being "too straight laced" to voice a level of concern.
She was the daughter of ultra-straight-laced, middle-class Surrey parents both of whom served during the Second World War.
Has he always been so straight laced?
One such attempt at socializing travel, Gidsy, deadpooled back in 2013 — acquired by a more straight laced travel startup, GetYourGuide, which focuses on hawking mainstream tours and attractions.
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