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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Recent Examples of Victorian
King Charles got a Victorian clock restored on his visit.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Its interior decor offers an upscale, Victorian boudoir theme with dim, vintage chandelier lighting with beaded fringe trim and deep red tones on textured wallpaper.
—USA Today, 30 July 2025
None of the 95 rooms at this palatial property, which first opened in the 1860s, is the same, and the decor is an eccentric mishmash that combines every era since then, from Victorian fripperies to sinuously streamlined Art Nouveau.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 28 July 2025
Our apartment, though charming, inconveniently occupied the top two and a half floors of a converted Victorian terrace house, and somehow contained four flights of stairs.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for Victorian
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Its interior decor offers an upscale, Victorian boudoir theme with dim, vintage chandelier lighting with beaded fringe trim and deep red tones on textured wallpaper.
—USA Today, 30 July 2025
None of the 95 rooms at this palatial property, which first opened in the 1860s, is the same, and the decor is an eccentric mishmash that combines every era since then, from Victorian fripperies to sinuously streamlined Art Nouveau.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 28 July 2025
Our apartment, though charming, inconveniently occupied the top two and a half floors of a converted Victorian terrace house, and somehow contained four flights of stairs.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Victorian
puritanical
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Shiite Iran feared the regional ascendance of Sunni radicalism in the form of the puritanical Taliban, an ambitious al-Qaeda, and other militant factions, as well as further instability on its eastern border—Iran was then, and remains now, home to many Afghan refugees.—
Vali Nasr,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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Indeed, one of the reasons some men left the League was their perception that the institution treated women too preciously and that the school administration labored to cultivate a puritanical atmosphere in a place that was by nature loose and raucous.—
Anne Halsey,
JSTOR Daily,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Victorian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Victorian. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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