How to Use straitlaced in a Sentence

straitlaced

adjective

• Williams’ character was the more straitlaced of the pair.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
• The first one is a little more straitlaced and straightforward.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2021
• Even the most straitlaced coppers are just one misstep away from operating on the wrong side of the law.
  — Olivia-Anne Cleary, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2021
• People love to see the weird fringes of straitlaced cultures, and Mormons are easy pickings.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
• So too did the one at Disney Hall, in the wake of a performance that, despite being a bit too straitlaced in tempo, had an obliterating impact.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• Chen's novel is about a straitlaced heroine pulled into a counterfeit-handbag scheme.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 30 Jan. 2023
• As her foil, Spencer is stuck in a fairly thankless role as the straitlaced straight woman, her aptitude for wisecracking and comedic timing subsumed to McCarthy's wilder energy.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Here, Hoffman—whose interiors are known for their chic, muted palette—played with color and scale in contrast to the showroom’s straitlaced concrete floors and exposed ceilings.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2023
• Take, for example, the collection’s Architect jacket, which references a straitlaced British look, with square proportions and a three-button front.
  — Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2022
• Glover is at the center of the story, about a straitlaced advertising exec and his irresponsible roommate, but his charm is more responsible for the show’s success than the actual plot.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 16 May 2021
• But the union, which endorsed the straitlaced Lacey, immediately clashed with Gascón, arguing that his softer prosecution policy would lead to an increase in crime.
  — NBC News, 2 Jan. 2021
• To Washington’s straitlaced rule-makers, crypto’s wild, utopian promises are merely cover for dangerous fads and scams.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 3 Oct. 2022
• Plus, there’s the fact that many more young people are toying with a sober-curious lifestyle, forgoing alcohol completely in favor of more straitlaced beverages.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2023
• The typical hire was an athletic, straitlaced college graduate in his late twenties or early thirties who served in the military or worked for a local police department.
  — CBS News, 14 May 2021
• The straitlaced brothers are tasked with explaining complicated matters such as tax codes or SARS, and inevitably do so by singing an absolutely nonsensical, content-free song.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2022
• From his early days as a straitlaced funnyman to his later years as a cantankerous observer of modern culture, Carlin’s comedy career is like no other.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 July 2022
• Journalism here is serious business — akin to a sacred vocation, actually — and its practitioners are straitlaced and earnest.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2022
• Hottinger would prefer someone like Senator Rob Portman, the straitlaced fiscal conservative whose retirement created the vacancy Vance hopes to fill.
  — Time, 7 July 2021
• In eighteenth-century correspondence, even very straitlaced people—a scientist like Réaumur, for example—always ended up letting themselves go, thereby clarifying some aspect of their personality.
  — Jean Birnbaum, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024