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Adjective: tight-laced
  1. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my tight-laced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts";
    - priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed [archaic], straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, victorian, bluenosed [US, informal], uptight [informal]

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tighten
tighten one's belt
tighten up
tightener
tightening
tightfisted
tightfistedness
tightfitting
tight-fitting
tight-knit
tight-laced
tightlipped
tightly
tightly knit
tightness
tightrope
tightrope walker
tightrope walking
tights
tightwad
tighty whitey