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

I want to be very high-minded about this.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025

While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, gods and goddesses—theirs, with its focus on everyday individuals and events, can be seen as prosaic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

It threatens to drown out their own more high-minded projects.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025

Dedd realizes she is speaking to the picture of Minerva, as if she were assigning her a part, pinning her down with a handful of adjectives, the beautiful, intelligent, high-minded Minerva.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez