as in Victorian
given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals
some of the more bluenosed parents demanded that the novel be removed from the high school's summer reading list
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In the story, a Victorian husband attempts to drive his heiress wife insane by subtly rearranging reality, most notably by dimming their house’s gas lighting.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
8 May 2025 -
The London sewers were originally constructed during the Victorian era, when the capital city held just around four million people.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
7 May 2025
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Over the past few years, generational warfare has only ramped up—so much so that it’s become boring to even reference: Gen Z hating on millennials for being cringe, millennials hating on Gen Z for being puritanical, and everyone hating on boomers for being, well, boomers.—
Daisy Jones,
Vogue,
3 May 2025
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His subject, Nandy told me, exhibited all the traits of an authoritarian personality: puritanical rigidity, a constricted emotional life, fear of his own passions, and an enormous ego that protected a gnawing insecurity.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Bluenosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluenosed. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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