high-minded
Example Sentences
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Forward guidance has high-minded objectives: making the Fed more transparent and accountable and giving markets the information they need to adapt to future policy shifts without undue surprises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
That dynamic may partly account for why other high-minded millennial businesses haven’t fared well.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
I want to be very high-minded about this.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025
It threatens to drown out their own more high-minded projects.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
Even though I knew these high-minded arguments would get me nowhere, I tried them anyway—Martin Luther King would be ashamed!—and they made the three girls shriek with laughter as they pushed me to the ground.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
