high-principled
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The satire is all-encompassing: journalists and their readers get scuffed, and so do hostile little children and high-principled women who refuse to admit that they’ve been taken in.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019
He recovered, and when last heard of was up to his old tricks again�an agnostic now, but as high-principled, experimentalizing as ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
All meant well by Mr. Donkin, whom they adored, but their good intentions merely paved the way for his high-principled enemy's attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
The forces of high-principled Mayor Joseph Clark Jr. are feuding with the patronage-minded party organization headed by U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poor Rosalind, meanwhile, was as profoundly unhappy as it was well possible for a girl to be who was young, beautiful, rich, talented, well-born, sweet-tempered, high-principled, not crossed in love, and moreover in perfect health.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs
