uptight 的定义
Slang.
- tense, nervous, or jittery.
- annoyed or angry.
- stiffly conventional in manner or attitudes.
uptight 近义词
nervous
更多uptight例句
- An Ethiopian woman stands in front of a young boy, her left arm extended in perfectly perpendicular contrast to her uptight frame.
- She had no time for the idea that kids came second to public duty, or for the uptight Windsor repression of personal feelings in public.
- He’s fearless, bold, unafraid to shock people by saying what others think, while Guy is straitlaced, uptight, and seething beneath his polite exterior.
- Because there wasn’t too much political interference and people uptight about all kinds of stuff.
- I’m an uptight Brit, I don’t tell people stuff about my life.
- “It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys,” she said.
- Read another way, she is a horrible mother, an uptight snob, and a bit of a shrew.
- One of the characters I played was an uptight whackjob, so that was probably written for me.
- All of this makes even the most well-meaning junior soldier more confused and more uptight.
- The producers were looking to start a fight between the laid-back Sebastian and Camille, his uptight counterpart.
- She is slender, immaculately dressed, and—as Dr. Feldman could see immediately—rigid and very uptight about herself.