STRAITLACED

Meaning of STRAITLACED in English

adjective

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My aunt's very straitlaced - she'd be shocked if you mentioned sex.

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STRAITLACED — or straightlaced adjective Date: 1554 excessively strict in manners, morals, or opinion, wearing or having a bodice or stays tightly …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STRAITLACED — adjective or straightlaced ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ Etymology: strait (II) + laced 1. : wearing or having a bodice or stays tightly laced …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STRAITLACED — adj. excessively conservative, very conventional; extremely strict
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
STRAITLACED — or straight·laced ˈstrāt-ˈlāst Date: 1554 1. : excessively strict in manners, morals, or opinion 2. : wearing or having a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STRAITLACED — [strait.laced] or straight.laced adj (1554) 1: excessively strict in manners, morals, or opinion 2: wearing or having a bodice or …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
STRAITLACED — straitlaced BrE AmE ˌstreɪt ˈleɪst ◂
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
STRAITLACED — strait ‧ laced /ˌstreɪtˈleɪst◂/ BrE AmE adjective having strict old-fashioned ideas about moral behaviour: straitlaced Victorian society
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STRAITLACED — see strait-laced
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STRAITLACED — see strait-laced
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
STRAITLACED — [adjective] [disapproving] - having old-fashioned and fixed morals, esp. relating to sexual mattersI didn't dare tell her I lived with …
Cambridge English vocab
STRAITLACED — Synonyms and related words : Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
STRAITLACED — adj. Function: adjective Synonyms: PRIM 1, genteel, prig, priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, stuffy, tight-laced, Victorian Related Words: hidebound, intolerant, narrow, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
STRAITLACED — adjective Synonyms: prim 1, genteel, prig, priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, stuffy, tight-laced, Victorian Related Word: hidebound, intolerant, narrow, narrow-minded; rigorous, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
STRAITLACED — строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности и морали straitlaced строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STRAITLACED — Щепетильный
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
STRAITLACED — a строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности и морали
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
STRAITLACED — (a) нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности и морали; пуританский; строгий
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
STRAITLACED — a строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности и морали
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
STRAITLACED — a строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности и морали
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
STRAITLACED — adj. строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
STRAITLACED — adj. строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
STRAITLACED — строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности и морали straitlaced строгий, пуританский, нетерпимый в вопросах нравственности
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
STRAITLACED — adj. Variant: or straight · laced Pronunciation: ' str ā t- ' l ā st Function: adjective Date: 1554 1 …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
STRAITLACEDNESS — noun see: straitlaced
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STRAITLACEDLY — adverb see: straitlaced
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STRAIGHTLACED — adjective see: straitlaced
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STRAITLACEDNESS — noun see straitlaced
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STRAITLACEDLY — adverb see straitlaced
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STRAIGHTLACED — adjective see straitlaced
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LAUGH — I. ˈlaf, -aa(ə)-, -ai-, -ȧ-, -ä- verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English laughen, from Old English hliehhan, hlehhan, hlæhan; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
OLD-FASHIONED — INDEX: 1. clothes/styles/words 2. machines/equipment 3. opinions/methods/systems 4. books/information 5. places 6. people 7. extremely old-fashioned 8. old-fashioned in a …
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