Examples of uptight

• You're not aware that you're uptight or, you know, like screaming or whatever it might be.

• He just snapped at people, uptight.

• They got uptight not only about the tax itself but also about the fact that it was retrospective.

• I know that many local councillors got uptight about it.

• That is why we are so uptight about bicycles.

• The organist got uptight with the vicar; the vicar dismissed him and the choir walked out in support of the organist.

• That was the uptight grocer girl's next attempt, and it was a total, miserable and utter failure.

• But why is my noble friend so uptight about it?