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tight-laced

tight-laced

adjective
exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" 
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Tight-laced is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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