One entry found for straitlaced.

Entry Word: straitlaced
Function: adjective
Text: or straightlaced
given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals <a very straitlaced old lady who believed women shouldn't even show a bare ankle in public>
Synonyms prim, prudish, puritanical
Related Words priggish, staid, stuffy; genteel, proper, refined; decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuous
Near Antonyms liberated, permissive; bad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, loose, wicked; debauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted