STRAIGHT-LACED Synonyms

• exaggeratedly proper

• of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism

• exaggeratedly proper

• morally rigorous and strict

• exaggeratedly proper

• following accepted customs and proprieties

• (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

• unimaginative and conformist

• conforming with accepted standards

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

• rigidly formal or bound by convention

• being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

• (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

• a lavish dance requiring formal attire

• a gown for evening wear

• characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• logically deductive

• refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

• marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness

• having all the qualities typical of the thing specified

• limited to the thing specified

• appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs

• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• fixed and unmoving

• being in a tense state

• exaggeratedly proper

• exaggeratedly proper

• exaggeratedly proper

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• exaggeratedly proper

• having a square toe

• exaggeratedly proper

• exaggeratedly proper

• of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled

• a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

• exaggeratedly proper

• typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria