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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(informal, derogatory) Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours..
Assemblyperson Baker, as she probably liked to be addressed, had all the lyricism and sensuality of Betty Crocker. She was so tight-assed that she even wore stockings in the tropics.
This noncritical atmosphere works for us because the three of us are so tight assed about revealing our emotions.
A group of pedestrians waited on the corner opposite for the lights to change even though there was no traffic coming in either direction. After watching them for a while Hoffmann muttered savagely, ‘The goddam tight-assed Swiss...’
[…] Gottlieb obviously wishes, above all else in life, that he could turn himself into that miserable don and learn to write his spiteful-playful tight-assed vinegar prose.
It was a typical old brownstone, built in the fifties and since then maintained with tight-assed economy—a little paint every year, a new lock on the door, perhaps a new piece of plumbing here and there as the old rusted out.
We have learned how—what do you call it?—tight-assed the white man is with his money.
Cuddles is the one in the money. Ain’t tight-assed about it either, which is why we hang together.
2015, Kimberli A. Bindschatel, Operation Tropical Affair, Traverse City, MI: Turning Leaf, Chapter 8, p. 78, We could pop down to the Caymans. Drink some margaritas, watch those tight-assed college boys play beach volleyball.
Use tight-assed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tight-assed means (informal, derogatory) Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours..
Common synonyms include conservative, conventional, inhibited, repressed.
Possible antonyms include easy-going, laid-back, relaxed.
Assemblyperson Baker, as she probably liked to be addressed, had all the lyricism and sensuality of Betty Crocker. She was so tight-assed that she even wore stockings in the tropics.
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