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
He accuses Billy, in the presence of high-principled Captain Vere, of fomenting mutiny.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Allied manifesto addressed to "leading" Spaniards was daring, high-principled and humane.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Those of us who know Shapiro well know a man who is not so much a P. T. Barnum as a dedicated, considerate, high-principled lawyer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Emmie was too unselfish and high-principled to oppose a decision which approved itself both to her common sense and her conscience.
From The Haunted Room A Tale by A. L. O. E.