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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist, genteel, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox, illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, libertine, literalist, literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial, petty, precisianist, precisianistic, prig, priggish, prim, prissy, procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, shortsighted, small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked, straightlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting, unyielding
Dictionary Results for straitlaced:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
straitlaced
    adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
           approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim,
           prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed,
           straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced,
           straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Strait-laced \Strait"-laced`\, a.
   1. Bound with stays.
      [1913 Webster]

            Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she
            thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are
            strait-laced.                         --Locke.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] --Fuller.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
      [1913 Webster]

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