Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
exaggeratedly proper;
- Example: "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"[syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tight-laced
adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim,
prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed,
straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced,
straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]