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What does straight-laced mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having narrow views on moral matters; prudish.
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Boots and other shoes are generally straight-laced, which looser laces on Sambas.
At points in your life you can view libraries as quite stuffy and straight-laced.
Mr. Earle's straight-laced tendencies are evident in both his colleague's reminiscences and in his interview with Mr. Small.
William Parker is a straight-laced cop with dreams of ridding L.A of its crime and endemic corruption.
And to rigidly enforce the pink and blue boxes: the boring binary, straight-laced order.
He plays a straight-laced risk assessor on honeymoon, who finds that his new wife takes a shine to the first beefcake she meets.

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