high-principled
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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
Spare, high-principled Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock was one of the group of bankers and politicians who founded the World in 1885.
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Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do.
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But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody?
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She had thought that in regard to women he was a prurient savage: she now knew that he was a high-principled and rather fastidious celibate.
From Burning Sands by Weigal, Arthur