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
Both these high-principled embodiments of monarchy were young once; both married for love, neither of them ever got over it.
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Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do.
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No coward is the King of the Belgians, but a very sensitive and high-principled gentleman.
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It was not alone a shock given to mercantile credit and commercial honesty, but it seemed an outrage against whatever assumed to be high-principled and honorable.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James