as in puritanical
given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals
a conservative Christian sect with a code of sexual morality that is often seen as quaintly Victorian by outsiders
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The situation also demonstrated the ways that Morgan — a modest, diminutive woman out of the Victorian era, given to wearing prim suits and her hair pinned back into a bun — didn’t conform to a popular idea of the genius American architect whose buildings define eras.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
Old leaky underground pipes are causing a crisis The U.K. has some of the oldest water systems in the world, with parts of the network still dating back to the Victorian era.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025
The Fraud by Zadie Smith With her latest novel, Smith uses a Victorian setting to probe the relationship between England and colonial Jamaica.
—Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
My shop, the 'Salt House,' is a Victorian dark history private tattoo studio complete with gold and old.
—Joe Mutascio, IndyStar, 4 July 2025
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
Old leaky underground pipes are causing a crisis The U.K. has some of the oldest water systems in the world, with parts of the network still dating back to the Victorian era.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025
The Fraud by Zadie Smith With her latest novel, Smith uses a Victorian setting to probe the relationship between England and colonial Jamaica.
—Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
My shop, the 'Salt House,' is a Victorian dark history private tattoo studio complete with gold and old.
—Joe Mutascio, IndyStar, 4 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Victorian
puritanical
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For Max in particular, his parent’s lifelong humorless severity looks more and more like malevolent delusion under a cloak of puritanical righteousness.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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At a moment when puritanical forces in this country are actively trying to deny Americans the freedom to be themselves, that’s radical enough.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025
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“Victorian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Victorian. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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