Special and Uptight

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Special adjective - Being the one or ones of a class with no other members.

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Uptight and special are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Uptight" instead an adjective "Special".

Uptight adjective - Feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty.

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Special and uptight are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Special" instead an adjective "Uptight".

So there is no wonder that she has a very special relationship with her socialist father, who happens to also be more lenient than her more uptight mother is.

Source: Daddy's Girl
In the anti-marijuana Afterschool Special episode "Stoned", Scott Baio plays an uptight and unpopular high school student who starts smoking pot moderately and then learns to loosen up, makes some friends, meets a pretty girl and saves his brother's life after potentially fatal boating accident.

Source: Do Not Do This Cool Thing
It is directed by Paul Feig.Bullock plays Sarah Ashburn, an uptight, by-the-books FBI special agent who is forced to team up with Shannon Mullins, a foul-mouthed and abrasive detective (McCarthy) in order to take down a drug lord.

Source: Film / The Heat

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