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
Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In his six years at the Foreign Ministry, Brentano proved a zealous, high-principled advocate of European unity through such organizations as the Common Market and Euratom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poor Rosalind, meanwhile, was as profoundly unhappy as it was well possible for a girl to be who was young, beautiful, rich, talented, well-born, sweet-tempered, high-principled, not crossed in love, and moreover in perfect health.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs
