as in wet blanket
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Recent Examples of straight arrow
Yoon-tak is a straight arrow kind of kid.
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
Cooke, who drives a red sports car, smokes cigarettes and carries a flask in his jacket, stands in obvious temperamental contrast to Malcolm, who is both the straight arrow and the nerd of the group, offering them vanilla ice cream and showing off his new Rolleiflex camera.
—New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
Progress did not proceed in a straight arrow from bad times then to good times now.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2023
Photos from his high school yearbooks depict a bespectacled straight arrow with a mission-control haircut and a fondness for cardigans and chinos.
—Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
Cooke, who drives a red sports car, smokes cigarettes and carries a flask in his jacket, stands in obvious temperamental contrast to Malcolm, who is both the straight arrow and the nerd of the group, offering them vanilla ice cream and showing off his new Rolleiflex camera.
—New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
Progress did not proceed in a straight arrow from bad times then to good times now.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2023
Photos from his high school yearbooks depict a bespectacled straight arrow with a mission-control haircut and a fondness for cardigans and chinos.
—Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
See all Example Sentences for straight arrow
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“Straight arrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straight%20arrow. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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