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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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
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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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“Bluenosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluenosed. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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