Tight-laced in a sentence as an adjective

I wasn't offended :P Sorry, I probably have came off as a bit tight-laced

I may have worshiped him at the time, but many of the tight-laced budding lawyers in attendance thought he was weird, mildly anti-social, and did not understand his relevance.

Tight-laced definitions

adjective

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