straight-arrow

plural straight-arrows

1. alternativeAlternative form of straight arrow.

   But how did a straight-arrow like you wind up with a friend like that?

   2014, Joanne Kennedy, How to Handle a Cowboy

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   A ruggedly-handsome man, he had an open, friendly face; he was known as a straight-arrow.

   2002, John Leslie Evans, Anatomy of a Killing

   All my life I had been a very clean-cut guy, sort of a “straight-arrow,” an outdoors, hunting and fishing kind of guy.

   2012, Robert L. Sims, A Boy Named Bobby: Adventures of Growing up in the 40'S and 50'S

   The guy's a straight-arrow, and he's definitely got the president's back.

   2014, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Fatal Conceit, page 141

comparative more straight-arrow · superlative most straight-arrow

1. alternativeAlternative form of straight arrow.

   The difficulties attracted him, as well as the aesthetics of the route he wanted to follow – a straight-arrow ridge to the top.

   1983, Pacific Northwest - Volume 17, page 38

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   Savor a paved and peaceful route through endless fields as you follow a straight-arrow road to an intersection with the secondary road for Grossbostheim.

   1993, Karen & Terry Whitehill, Europe by Bike, page 206

   Second, Winney's personal history did not follow a straight-arrow transition from slavery to manumission to freedom, or even manumission to indenture to freedom; rather her re-enslavement followed several years' employment as a free woman for her former owner, and then what may have been as many years at the residence of her later employer before she was sold.

   1997, Empire, Society and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn, page 240