noble-minded
Example Sentences
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The idea is regulations are often supported by a surprising alliance of noble-minded moralists and profit-driven cynics.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2019
As an interpreter, Mørk avoided the noble-minded protocol—the high-school-graduation tread—that is too common in Elgar.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
Peter Auty's José is initially defined as the noble-minded nice guy who is ostensibly different from the rest until, of course, we gradually become aware of the demons of instability and obsession that drive him.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2011
Angelenos still remember that even so noble-minded a salesman as Hoffman bought up wrecks of competing makes, regaled his customers with lurid tales about the fate of their hapless owners.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would hardly do to traduce this noble-minded, charitable, spirited, and just woman; yet, hazardous as the experiment must and did seem, it was attempted, and not altogether without success.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
