Strait-laced in a sentence as an adjective

Now give him a job as a programmer with less verbal filter than you'd expect from a guy in a strait-laced office. Now take this "brogrammer" label and start assigning it to programmers who's actions you don't like and fit the "bro" mold.

I'm now older and much more strait-laced than I was in my youth, but I had already well-established my personal policy not to mix work and personal devices more than two decades ago. How is this a lesson people are having to re-learn?

I actually wanted to put "business guy" and "techie girl" as our titles, but its a fairly strait-laced conference so in the end I put CEO and CTO. I did feel a bit awkward doing that, knowing that it's just the two of us. I am positively cringing now after reading that article!

Kind of funny that they finally found something to hook the rest of 'em - all the strait-laced people as you say. Many people would never be caught by any of the typical addictions -- Smoking is socially stigmatized, ***** are illegal, alcohol addiction is kinda sorta alittlebit mostly "hereditary" in the loosest sense of the word, gambling for most people requires a long car trip.

As most Singaporeans know, the KTV lounges have been an embarrassment to strait-laced Singapore for decades, ... [1] To be clear twenty years back I was taken for business meetings to a 20+ story tower that was lounges and clubs from the basement to to the top floor .

Strait-laced definitions

adjective

exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"