strict rules
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- rigidUnable to bend
- obedienceCompliance with authority
compliance · guidelines · authority · punishment · code · protocol · boundaries · constraints · zero-tolerance · inflexible · binding · mandatory · curfew · detention · violations · harsh · unyielding · conformity
- rigourshardship, privation, suffering, deprivation, adversity
- Mormon stereotypesBYU, Utah, missionaries, polygamy, sister wives
- Puritanismpuritanism, moral purity, prudery, prudishness, strictness
strict rulesunwritten rules
Unstated behavioral expectations
social conventions · gentlemen's agreements · customs · traditions · laissez-faire