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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -strait-laced-, *strait-laced*, strait-lac, strait-lace
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
strait-laced(adj) พิถีพิถันมากไป, Syn. strict, stiff, prudish

WordNet (3.0)
priggish(adj) exaggeratedly proper, Syn. square-toed, prim, straightlaced, puritanical, prissy, straitlaced, straight-laced, prudish, tight-laced, strait-laced, victorian

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Strait-laceda. 1. Bound with stays. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
strait-laced

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary
硬派[こうは, kouha] (n, adj-na) (1) tough elements; hard-liners; stalwarts; diehards; hawks; (2) considering association with women and interest in fashion as weakness and focusing on strength and manliness; young tough; young rowdy; (3) hard (news); hard news reporter; (4) strait-laced (person); straight-laced; overly serious regarding relations between men and women; (5) bullish traders; (P) [Add to Longdo]

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