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
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
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
Mrs. Dean was too high-principled a woman to attempt to smooth over her own child’s offences.
From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline
