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straitlaced

/streyt-leyst/US // ˈstreɪtˈleɪst //

狭隘的,狭义的,狭隘的人,狭隘

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
    • : tightly laced, as a bodice.
    • : wearing tightly laced garments.

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Examples

  • They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the stay lace in two.

  • Nonetheless, Turing killed himself on June 7, 1954, in a deliberately prepared way, by eating a cyanide-laced apple.

  • About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.

  • Here, the whiskey-laced meat masters give you their favorite recipes.

  • Next he laced on first the right skate, with a pad of cotton under the tongue, and then the left.

  • The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.

  • Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.

  • Directions for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.

  • And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.

  • On the south-side of Clarence Strait the land is low, like the coast to the eastward.

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