strait-laced

Philip, strait-laced in matters of truth, was a little shocked by this airy attitude.

Macallan was one of the strait-laced people who disapproved of the ball.

Then she could always plead moods and nerves, and the right not to be held too strictly to account; and even in the most strait-laced societies the laugh was always against the husband.

If they were clever people, those Shropshire Crawleys, they might have it all, I think; but the Shropshire Crawley is a clergyman like his Hampshire cousin, and mortally offended Miss Crawley (who had fled thither in a fit of rage against her impracticable brethren) by some strait-laced notions of morality.

Yet he was not strait-laced. And he knew nothing of common Christian morality.

The whole of debauchery." Actor Robert Pattinson, saying that young actors had become more strait-laced "The English like eccentrics.

One-liners are generously distributed among the cast including a scene-stealing Julia Davis as a strait-laced mother, who is clueless to the pomp and pageantry of the wrestling ring.

One-liners are generously distributed among the cast, including a scene-stealing Julia Davis as a strait-laced mother, who is clueless to the pomp and pageantry of the wrestling ring.

Revealing his mum is quite strait-laced and hates swearing, he told of having to "keep it clean" when she took part in The Matt Lucas Awards show.

The Stolen Marriage - Diane Chamberlain, Macmillan - out now A ONE-night stand leaves young nurse Tess pregnant and in the strait-laced America of 1944, she's forced to marry the stranger who fathered her baby.

Shadow provides a satisfying conclusion to Wendy and Peter's story, with Wendy far from the prim, strait-laced girl of her beginnings.

Despite having a young fiancee, Flora, the usually strait-laced Michael throws himself into a relationship with Thomas, but can they find lasting happiness?