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high-principled

adjective as in conscientious

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Example Sentences

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.

Maria Theresa of Austria, a proud and high-principled lady, stooped to recognize her existence, and wrote her civil notes.

For this reason the author has not gone further into the most romantic story of this high-principled pirate.

The days of the noble and high-principled Penelope, of the refined and intellectual Helen, of the innocent and spirited Nausikaa, of the gentle and patient Andromache, had passed away.

Yet he managed to hold on his way without moral damage, for he was high-principled in every sense of the word.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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