strait-lacedadjective
uk/ˌstreɪtˈleɪst/us/ˈstreɪt.leɪst/disapprovinghaving old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters:
The joke shocked her strait-laced parents.
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Old or old-fashioned
- a thing of the past idiom
- age-old
- ageing
- aging
- ancient
- creaky
- feel your age idiom
- fossilized
- frumpy
- fusty
- have had its/your day idiom
- hoary
- neanderthal
- oldish
- out of date
- outdated
- outmoded
- outworn
- vintage
- went out with the ark idiom
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