high-minded
Example Sentences
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That dynamic may partly account for why other high-minded millennial businesses haven’t fared well.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Or a group of high-minded, dutiful, quite-conscientious California voters?
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
He was a high-minded historian and literary critic who nevertheless loved writing about rugby and cricket.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
I want to be very high-minded about this.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025
But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo’s expression, as if he could not believe she was not quite as high-minded as he had thought.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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