Sentence examples for were uptight from inspiring English sources
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.
They were uptight Republican country club kind of people.
Your problem was no longer that you were profligate or dissolute, but that you were uptight, repressed, neurotic, obsessive-compulsive or fixated at the anal stage of psychosexual development.
She understood that this character was unique not simply because they were a pre-op transsexual but because they were uptight, highly educated, and had her own sense of humour.
The villa's owners were fussy yuppies from Milan who had a long, scolding list of house rules — yet, when we inquired why the electricity went out every day from 2 P.M. to 8 P.M., they shrugged and told us we were uptight Americans.
Maybe those nuns were uptight and mean but so are some lesbian interior designer insanely introspective and selfish lovers!
He took the view that it was the sexually enlightened stance to pass the ordinance, and those who opposed it were uptight, including, near the end of the campaign, Florida Governor Reubin Askew.
Maybe it's uptight guys from upstate NY struggling against their own latent uptightness?
The atmosphere was uptight, threatening.
