The word "tight-laced" is correct in written English.
It is often used to describe someone who is overly strict or formal, particularly in their behavior or attitudes. Example: "Her tight-laced demeanor made it difficult for others to relax around her." Alternatives include "stuffy" or "prim."
Some of the tourist-orientated cafes are too tight-laced, but Café Hawelka is a favourite.
The gadgetry was largely the result of a tight-laced budget, always the midwife of invention.
Thus, Mr. Williams -- a tight-laced management specialist who replaced the Barry flair for partying with his own C.E.O.
Later, the eyes of the fans were directed with more force toward the Jagger crotch — in embroidered, unzipped Ossie Clark jumpsuits and in tight-laced knee breeches, during Jagger's sporty, gay-quarterback phase.
Two characters trying and failing to drown their hopes and regrets, and two strong actors refusing to be tight-laced by a director's exercise in style: here is a mood piece looking for a fight.
I cannot think that the Elizabethans were much given to exposure: they were heavily ruffed, jerkined, and stomachered; Shakespeare's Cleopatra was obviously as tight-laced in her apparel as she was loose in her behaviour.
Unisex tights with laced designs and the wigs flash by at high speed.
In its review, Publishers Weekly said that his writing was "as tight as a well-laced pair of gloves".
JUNKMAN'S DAUGHTER Stretching for yards behind a facade painted in shrieking tints of psychedelic sapphire, pink and green are racks jammed with club gear: Leg Avenue vinyl dresses that lace up, milkmaid-style, at the front and rear ($56); crystal spider pendants; honeybee-stripe tights; and, for the strait-laced bargain hunter, BB Dakota funnel-collar coats in urbane houndstooth patterns ($68).
How strait-laced is this kid?
