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 • Feb. 26, 2021

Yohji Yamamoto also followed the high crown hat and Victorian values of tailoring — shown, as ever, on a selection of “real” men, from skinny to portly.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2012

In the Thatcher era, fogeys preached "Victorian values".

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011

The idea of "art for art's sake" turned Victorian values upside down.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011

But if you are poor and sick, what then do Victorian values offer you?

From Time Magazine Archive