buttoned-up

The GOP leadership is too hierarchical, too buttoned-up, too cautious, too boring.

Prosperous old gentlemen pacing home, rotund in their buttoned-up coats, had clear drops at the end of their noses.

John Bull has a good heart, which at times he conceals in his fat and phlegm under his well-wadded and buttoned-up coat.

A bell-boy stood there, his buttoned-up figure silhouetted against the lights in the hall.

But Mr Tite Barnacle was a buttoned-up man, and consequently a weighty one.

Nigel Debrullier looks the buttoned-up Pastor Manders, even to caricature.