Crossword-Solution: STRAITLACED
We have 12 clues for the answer “STRAITLACED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Stuffy nose | 1 answer |
| Like weed "enhanced" by the singer of "All My Ex's Live in Texas"? | 1 answer |
| Excessively strict | 2 answers |
| morally strict | 3 answers |
| Very conservative | 3 answers |
| Like a bluenose | 3 answers |
| Overly strict | 4 answers |
| Victorian | 13 answers |
| priggish | 23 answers |
| prim | 25 answers |
| prudish | 61 answers |
| strict | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STRAITLACED (5)
Old Isaac Ford was straitlaced and all the rest, and I know there's no explaining it, least of all to himself.
She made light of the cause of Rose's displeasure, considering her extremely foolish and straitlaced, “for all young men of any spirit had their little vices, and came out well enough when the wild oats were sowed.” So she indulged Charlie in his new vagary, as she had in all his others, and treated him like an ill-used being, which was neither an inspiring nor helpful course on her part.
And if a fiddler could be found, the day was sure to end with a "hoe-down"--a dance that "made even the log-walled house tremble." No corn-husking or wedding was complete without dancing, although members of certain of the more straitlaced religious sects already frowned upon the diversion.
Presently, when Miss Potter whimpered something about "some people being so straitlaced," Mavis found words to say: "I'm not a bit straitlaced.
There arise, in our necessary co-operation with those who do not share in our faith, occasions when we are expected to unite in acts which we are thought very straitlaced for refusing to do, but which, conscience tells us, cannot be done without practical disloyalty to Jesus Christ.
Quotes with STRAITLACED (3)
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glow…
I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned." Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face...
My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1977–2025).