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My straitlaced parents brought me here to see naked people?
How had he ever mistaken her for a straitlaced shrew?
"I was always the straitlaced good kid out of all my siblings.
"The church's members are more straitlaced than right-wing Christians," he said.
In some ways, you know, he's a very straitlaced fellow, is our Damon.
Nice fellows, all, but I think they're too straitlaced for me."
Moreover American people are more straitlaced and they have closer links with tradition.
And she was outraged at the way he had crawled back inside his straitlaced self.
They're a pretty straitlaced lot now, so they must have been downright puritanical back then.
"Here" is a Mississippi town of 2,500 residents, a straitlaced place where alcohol sales are illegal.
The Church is very straitlaced about things like that.'
The others were too straitlaced to permit it.
So it was all the straitlaced American's fault.
Rivière-du-Loup was a straitlaced place in a lot of ways.
To a straitlaced man from Oklahoma like Herb, that would do it.
Sabrina was very straitlaced about certain things, very proper in the forms.
The warning doesn't help: before long, the straitlaced young woman is smuggling drugs into the prison for her mother.
"She's the exact opposite of the rest of these straitlaced brokers out there."
It's become common for straitlaced business people to put on baseball caps as a sign of knocking off, time away from work."
A simple tavern in a straitlaced burg like this.
It did not sit altogether easily with the straitlaced style of the post-war palace.
I was a straitlaced boy and I didn't know.
Steve Martin is at his best as a straitlaced architect driven to loony behavior by love.
"That would limit our selection to only the straitlaced and the goody two-shoes."
Ironically - given his straitlaced image - he seems more at ease with his jacket off.