tight-assed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.92 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules and behaviours.
Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "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."