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Tight-laced   /taɪt-leɪst/   Listen
Tight-laced

adjective
1.
Exaggeratedly proper.  Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, victorian.





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... flat-faced, high-hipped, high-shouldered woman, short in the body, and tight-laced; and she had a trick of wagging her skirts and perking at a ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand


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