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
But most Americans accepted these lofty abstractions as the noble aspirations of a sincere, high-principled man.
From Time Magazine Archive
No coward is the King of the Belgians, but a very sensitive and high-principled gentleman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The days of the noble and high-principled Penelope, of the refined and intellectual Helen, of the innocent and spirited Nausikaa, of the gentle and patient Andromache, had passed away.
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald
