Words and phrases that have a meaning related to straightlaced: (129 results)
Often used in the same context:
spinsterish, vixenish, pixieish, straitlaced, priggish, lumpish, mousey, lunkheaded, frowsy, goatish, uptight, suave, uxorious, nebbishy, caddish, unassertive, frowzy, highborn, moonfaced, guileless, unexpressive, brusk, skeevy, smarmy, mousy, charming, epicene, affectless, slatternly, airheaded, ditsy, pursy, vivacious, scatty, androgenous, incommunicative, sneery, unaffectionate, virginal, neurasthenic, humorless, smirky, dislikable, likable, inexpressive, dweeby, sluttish, dweebish, unshowy, viperous, unexcitable, flo ziegfeld, doltish, likeable, tenderhearted, winsome, ambitionless, amiable, easygoing, dandyish, blowzy, shrewish, moony, unaffecting, manless, stagestruck, tragi, waifish, skirt chaser, unpretty, softhearted, schoolmarmish, teacherly, nerdish, waspy, slobbish, genial, oedipal complex, undogmatic, dippy, blackhearted, libidinous, sphinxlike, sexless, hypochondriacal, sleazy, heartsore, imperturbable, miles gloriosus, urbane, tomboyish, diffident, gruff, henpecked, saturnine, kittenish, dandified, bumptious, cleancut, comely, stolid, cradle snatcher, effete, ismaili, lite, reclusive, aristocratic, disputatious, fearing, governed, illuftrious, illustrious, lawabiding, obsessed, orthodox, rational, reformed, same, uncultured, affronted, aggrieved
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Also try:prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, tight-laced, victorian
— Nouns for straightlaced: world, ancestors, people, family, sensibilities, manner, man, author, theology, order
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