Straitlaced [adjective]
Definition of Straitlaced:
formal
Sentence/Example of Straitlaced:
He was not straitlaced, or mealy-mouthed, or overburthened with scruples.
I don't think I'm more prejudiced or straitlaced than you: I think I'm less.
A few people are straitlaced, and a good many feel they have been taken in.
It is a cold, insipid style of beauty, at the best; and she is as self-willed and as straitlaced as a lady abbess.
Although Daneford was not a straitlaced city, there was a good deal of solid propriety in the character of its people.
Inclined too much to melancholy, and a trifle too straitlaced for his advanced age, perhaps.
Why had Cliffe been invited by these very respectable and straitlaced people the Grosvilles?