英和和英

副詞

uptightly (comparative more uptightly, superlative most uptightly)

1. In an uptight manner.
   • 2009 May 7, Cintra Wilson, “Is There a Setting for High Strung?”, New York Times:

     Child-women were bowed and baby-dolled up to resemble decorative Easter eggs: newly and uptightly pregnant (a paragon of marital fidelity), half-crippled by feminine weakness and excess luxury, declawed and wholly dominated by the unstoppable twin libidos of war and Wall Street.