Words similar to buttoned-up

Example sentences for: buttoned-up

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Prudie would suggest, however, since you are on your way up the corporate ladder in a "buttoned-up industry" that your ladyfriend not dress them up so that undue attention is directed their way.
I found her prim little Mona Lisa smirk and teasingly buttoned-up demeanor almost maddeningly sexy--more alluring by miles than the smeary-mouthed French sexpot.
Bob Guccione's open-necked shirts are a reaction to his buttoned-up, private-school youth.
This is kind of a different problem from what I've seen in your column, but here goes: I am not yet 30 and continue to move up in my rather buttoned-up company, where most of the male executives are married to, shall we say, plain women.
Is Levinson drawing a parallel here--saying that Jews are turned on by WASPs because they're so buttoned-up?