Victorian values
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Season 2 continues the wild exercise over 10 episodes, earnestly honoring Dickinson’s poetry by bringing it to the fore while bending Victorian values and period-piece conventions into pop art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2021
To anyone who would listen, Thatcher lionised Hayek, promising to bring together his free-market philosophy with a revival of Victorian values: family, community, hard work.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017
In the Thatcher era, fogeys preached "Victorian values".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011
And it wasn’t Enron or the Iraq war that caused the breakup; it was her boyfriend’s snobbish parents, and that reflects Victorian values, not the new millennium.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
But if you are poor and sick, what then do Victorian values offer you?
From Time Magazine Archive
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