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 accuses Billy, in the presence of high-principled Captain Vere, of fomenting mutiny.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
His home life, his religious life, his civic life, his professional relations with both colleague and patient, his hospital relations, were such as befit a high-principled man.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
