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Strait-laced

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of straight-laced. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    Bound with stays.

    "And if women were themselves to frame the bodies of their children in their wombs, as they 4 often endeavour to mend their shapes when they are out, we should as certainly have no perfect children born, as we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced, or much tampered with."

Adjective
  1. 1
    exaggeratedly proper wordnet

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