noble-minded
Example Sentences
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The idea is regulations are often supported by a surprising alliance of noble-minded moralists and profit-driven cynics.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2019
As an interpreter, Mørk avoided the noble-minded protocol—the high-school-graduation tread—that is too common in Elgar.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
Peter Auty's José is initially defined as the noble-minded nice guy who is ostensibly different from the rest until, of course, we gradually become aware of the demons of instability and obsession that drive him.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2011
Habitually moral, gentle, tolerant, noble-minded, this was the truest answer, yet he regarded himself quite simply and scientifically as "differing" from faithful folk who "make themselves quite easy by intuition."
From Time Magazine Archive
He called up those boyish days, the pleasures he had then enjoyed, his friendship with one noble-minded youth, and the injuries he had since received from the other companion of his boyhood.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
