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Victorian

[vik-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr-] / vɪkˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr- /
ADJECTIVE
prudish
Synonyms
STRONG
conservative square stiff
WEAK
conventional demure genteel priggish prim prissy proper puritanical respectable rigid smug starchy strait-laced stuffy uptight

Example Sentences

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Victorian Cross recipients from other Commonwealth nations have faced criminal charges, but Roberts-Smith is believed to be the first charged with a war crime.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

“This meticulously restored Victorian delivers the ultimate Hamptons lifestyle: a luxuriously appointed main residence, a lofted studio, and resort-like grounds with a heated gunite pool.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

They stay in a rambling Victorian house in the Garden District and record in a studio that’s haunted.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

The sentiment is understandable, for Kelvin really was a kind of Victorian superman.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson