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
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
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But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody?
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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She is such a pattern young woman, so high-principled, so good.
From The Man Who Rose Again by Hocking, Joseph