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
He recovered, and when last heard of was up to his old tricks again�an agnostic now, but as high-principled, experimentalizing as ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
No coward is the King of the Belgians, but a very sensitive and high-principled gentleman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
George was full of frolic, mischief, and fun, with generous impulses and excellent intentions, which only required peculiar and careful training and encouragement to develop him into a steady, high-principled man.
From Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First Being the First Book by Barrow, Sarah L.
