A stiff, stern, uptight, or humorless manner.
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My parents . . . had been decently off at some time in the past, but all that remained by the time I came along was a certain New Englandy Puritan sense of respectability. . . . I've inherited it. As much as I've tried to fight it, when you're born with a stick up your ass, you die with a stick up your ass.

Submitted on July 10, 2018

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التمسك الحمار

in je reet steken

enfiar a bunda

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