high-minded

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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

Chesterton was raised in a high-minded Unitarianism whose morals he approved but whose understanding of God he found too thin to support the changes that he, as a man of the left, wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

I want to be very high-minded about this.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025

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

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025

“It’s my birthday and I’m in a good mood. But someday you’ll be old too.Your body will start to fall apart and your brain will deteriorate. See if you’re so high-minded then.”

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer