Victorian values

British  

plural noun

1. qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of the family Compare Victorian

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Example Sentences

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

‘In 1983, Margaret Thatcher swept to general election victory on a moralistic platform of “Victorian values”.

From The Guardian

“Sri Lanka was a matriarchal country before the colonists came and brought in their Christian and Victorian values,” said Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, founder of Equal Ground, a gay rights group in Sri Lanka.

From New York Times

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

It is particularly galling to see the selective resurrection of Victorian values from the same crowd that has been pushing transgender locker rooms on the world, in an effort to destroy the last shred of girls’ innate sexual modesty.

From The Wall Street Journal