Meaning of Whitehousian | Babel Free

Definitions

Prudish; morally censorious.

Examples

“His assumption of the Whitehousian justification for censorship (and the use of 'the middle-aged' here is thin cover indeed for the first person singular) — to wit, that these American-style papers may corrupt their children, damage community relations, reduce British cities to New York level, or pollute the public mind.”

“Exactly the same technique may still be seen whenever we come upon 'f—' or 'f***' in print; every reader supplies the missing 'uck', but the Whitehousian proprieties are observed.”

“[…] for those disenchanted with sexual liberation, a basis for sexual caution without retreat into Whitehousian moral orthodoxy.”

“These range from naive and strident Whitehousian tirades against the supposedly corrosive effects of on screen sex, violence and profanity, to the much more sophisticated arguments of, say, William Fore (1987) or Neil Postman (1987).”

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