high-principled
Example Sentences
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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
No man with a reputation for belligerence either in international affairs or domestic affairs, no matter how high-principled he may be, is safe for executive office in the Federal Government today.
From Time Magazine Archive
But most Americans accepted these lofty abstractions as the noble aspirations of a sincere, high-principled man.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Allied manifesto addressed to "leading" Spaniards was daring, high-principled and humane.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We can have no right to control Miss Bayard's choice," observed my discreet and high-principled mother.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
