Word familyverbstraightennounstraightenerstraightnessstraight arrowstraightedgestraightforwardnessstraight manstraight shooteradverbstraightforthstraightlystraightwaystraightforwardlyadjectivestraightishstraightawaystraightforwardstraight
ˌstraight ˈarrow noun [countableC]
American EnglishAmE informalHONEST someone who is very honest and moral and who never does anything exciting or unusual 循规蹈矩的人,安分守己的人
Examples from the Corpus
straight arrow• Her eyesight, of course, was 20/20 straight arrow.• He was no straight arrow, this Santangelo.• Hoover was certainly, Summers shows, spectacularly indifferent to those straight arrow standards he set for his agents.