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 coward is the King of the Belgians, but a very sensitive and high-principled gentleman.
From Time Magazine Archive
All meant well by Mr. Donkin, whom they adored, but their good intentions merely paved the way for his high-principled enemy's attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
The high-principled minister is no such fighting gamecock as La Guardia, and Maurice Evans makes musicomedy wear a stiff collar where Tom Bosley fit the Little Flower like a glove.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our soldiers behaved with that gallantry, coolness, patriotism, inflexible hardihood, and high-principled devotion which ever animate the swelling heart of the Mexican warrior.
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
