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Straightlaced

Definition: Straightlaced

Straightlaced

Adjective

1. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Straightlaced

Synonyms: priggish (adj), prim (adj), prissy (adj), prudish (adj), puritanical (adj), square-toed (adj), straitlaced (adj), tight-laced (adj), victorian (adj). (additional references)

Anagrams: Straightlaced

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-g-h-i-l-r-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: straitlaced, strategical, theatricals.
	-3 letters: cartilages, castigated, cathedrals, charladies, clathrates, straighted, tailgaters, theatrical, trailheads.
	-4 letters: archaised, astricted, athletics, attachers, cartilage, castigate, castrated, cathedral, cathedras, clathrate, discharge, ghastlier, giltheads, glaciated, glaciates, hatterias, lacertids, lethargic, litharges, radicates, railheads, scraighed, starlight, strategic, tailgated, tailgater, tailgates, tailraces, tetracids, theatrics, theriacal, theriacas, thirlages, tracheids, trailhead.
	-5 letters: acridest, agitated, agitates, aglitter.
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Alternative Orthography: Straightlaced

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 74 72 61 69 67 68 74 6C 61 63 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

... - .-. .- .. --. .... - .-.. .- -.-. . -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0074 0072 0061 0069 0067 0068 0074 006C 0061 0063 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53868467757374867867697170

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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