straightlaced

• Décrit une personne très stricte, conservatrice et moralement irréprochable dans son comportement et ses opinions, souvent avec une connotation de rigidité ou de pruderie.

Describes a person who is very strict, conventional, and morally upright in their behavior and attitudes.

1. Exaggeratedly properC1informal

   Having or showing very strict, often old-fashioned, moral or social attitudes; excessively proper or conventional.

   Bégueule, prude, collet monté

   • His straightlaced parents disapproved of his punk rock music.
   • The office had a straightlaced dress code that required suits every day.
   • She found the party boring because everyone was too straightlaced to dance.

   Synonymesconventionalformalgenteelhideboundnarrow-mindedold-fashionedpriggishprimproperprudishpuritanicalstaidstrictstuffyuptight

   Antonymesbroad-mindeddissoluteeasygoingfreeliberallicentiouslooseunconventional