adjective
- Exaggeratedly proper.
- usage: "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
- Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.
- usage: "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
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