Antonyms for straitlaced


Grammar : Adj
Spell : streyt-leys
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstreɪtˌleɪs


Definition of straitlaced

  • adj formal
Example sentences :
  • He was not straitlaced, or mealy-mouthed, or overburthened with scruples.
  • Extract from : « Orley Farm » by Anthony Trollope
  • I don't think I'm more prejudiced or straitlaced than you: I think I'm less.
  • Extract from : « Mrs. Warren's Profession » by George Bernard Shaw
  • A few people are straitlaced, and a good many feel they have been taken in.
  • Extract from : « Lady Rose's Daughter » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • It is a cold, insipid style of beauty, at the best; and she is as self-willed and as straitlaced as a lady abbess.
  • Extract from : « Gycia » by Lewis Morris
  • Although Daneford was not a straitlaced city, there was a good deal of solid propriety in the character of its people.
  • Extract from : « The Weird Sisters, Volume II (of 3) » by Richard Dowling
  • Inclined too much to melancholy, and a trifle too straitlaced for his advanced age, perhaps.
  • Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905 » by Various
  • Why had Cliffe been invited by these very respectable and straitlaced people the Grosvilles?
  • Extract from : « The Marriage of William Ashe » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Synonyms for straitlaced

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