[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strait-laced \strait"-laced`\, a.
   1. bound with stays.
      1913 webster

            let nature have scope to fashion the body as she
            thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are
            strait-laced.                         --locke.
      1913 webster

   2. restricted; stiff; constrained. r. --fuller.
      1913 webster

   3. rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

strait-laced
     adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced aunt anna doesn't
           approve of my miniskirts" syn: priggish, prim, prissy,
            prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced,
            straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
see also:
priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical square-toed 
straitlaced straightlaced straight-laced tight-laced victorian 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

straitlaced
     adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced aunt anna doesn't
           approve of my miniskirts" syn: priggish, prim, prissy,
            prudish, puritanical, square-toed, strait-laced,
            straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
see also:
priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical square-toed 
strait-laced straightlaced straight-laced tight-laced victorian 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

98 moby thesaurus words for "straitlaced":
   quakerish, sabbatarian, victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted,
   borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf,
   deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical,
   firm, fundamentalist, genteel, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox,
   illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, iron,
   ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, libertine, literalist,
   literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded,
   mean-spirited, mid-victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted,
   narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
   obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial,
   petty, precisianist, precisianistic, prig, priggish, prim, prissy,
   procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic,
   puritan, puritanic, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorist,
   rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, shortsighted,
   small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked,
   straightlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic,
   uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting,
   unyielding

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