straiter-laced

Updated: May 23, 2025

Yet, if taken aback by an outrage, or an act of gross stupidity, which even the perpetrator himself had to suffer for, he would momentarily lose his patience, and rap out an objurgation that would stagger the straiter-laced gentlemen of his own cloth, or an outsider who knew less of him than the recording angel.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone