OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 3037

straight

/stɹeɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
kashato • lacio • liso • recto
Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing.
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mér…
derecho
In proper order; as it should be.
"If you wonder why folks can't take the news seriously, here's Exhibit A," said one blogger. "Lord Jesus, how can the reporter file this story with a straight face?"
Oh, music, how he loved it; it seemed to set everything straight all at once in his head.
convencional
Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
Although Eyles, the minor celebrity, is respected by his co-workers, he looks out of place among the dozens of short-haired, short-sleeved technocrats who man the Lab. “No doubt ab…
I've learned that there are two types of gays—straight gays and kinky gays.
hetero • heterosexual • hétero
Heterosexual.
Ain't nobody straight in L.A. / It seems that everybody is gay
Reuben, David R. (1969), chapter 8, in Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were too afraid to ask, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., published 1970, →LCCN, Homose…
puro
Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
Real cowboys know how to rope, ride a horse and drink whisky straight.
The Martini is still in belief, if not in fact, the centerpiece of a rite, and people who would not drink straight gin on the rocks will drink straight gin on the rocks if it is ca…