noble
Example Sentences
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“If anything he had some kind of remorse and was on his penance campaign. Part of resolving himself was helping with noble endeavors,” Tramo said.
From Los Angeles Times
Continuing indefinitely out of guilt is neither noble nor practical; instead, it puts everyone else’s needs above your own.
From MarketWatch
"Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture. They built the industry. We stand for what is good, what is virtuous and what is noble."
From BBC
In his simplest form, as in Reeves’s series “Adventures of Superman,” which began airing in 1952, he was a noble crime solver.
But unlike those movies, “Taxi Driver” declined to provide audiences with an access point in the form of a noble protagonist.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.