Original
Original adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.
Straight-laced is an antonym for original.
Straight-laced
Straight-laced adjective - Exaggeratedly proper.
Both words in one sentence
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Flanderization: Ackroyd's Joe Friday takes the original Friday's straight-laced, by-the-rules personality Up to Eleven.
Source: Franchise / Dragnet - Played straight in The Wicker Man (the original, not the newer version), in that the straight-laced Christian officer is shocked at the depraved sex and immorality surrounding him on the island, believing that they were evil heathens—and he was proven right.
Source: Sex Is Evil
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Straight-laced and Original. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/original/straight-laced
Original & Straight-laced. N.p., 2016. Web. 31 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/original/straight-laced>.
Straight-laced or Original. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/original/straight-laced.
