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

The opera offers a look at how the Civil War ended with high-minded statesmanship.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 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

Even though I knew these high-minded arguments would get me nowhere, I tried them anyway—Martin Luther King would be ashamed!—and they made the three girls shriek with laughter as they pushed me to the ground.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls