Thesaurus / high-minded

high-minded

How to use high-minded in a sentence

You may imagine the effect this missive produced upon the proud, high-minded doctor of divinity.

High-minded and possessing a keen sense of honor himself, he had an instinctive aversion to anything mean or low in others.

The doctor smiled again at the boy's high-minded openness, which must have cost an effort of self-humiliation.

In truth, there was good ground for his sorrowful apostrophe, for the scene was very painful to a high-minded witness.

Such, it might seem, would be the course which a high-minded and zealous teacher would pursue in imparting moral instruction.

The wise and high-minded counsels he bestowed on me entitle him to an honoured place in my memory and my grateful affection.

A high-minded delicacy made her conceal her apprehensions beneath an assumed calmness.

FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAU

It sustains the argument that even the most high-minded Nordic type cannot be trusted to govern other races sympathetically.

Perhaps he is not high-souled enough to rule, but he is high-minded enough to refuse to be degraded, and that is already much.

You, who seemed so sensible of the woes of your native land, you were too great, too high-minded to mistrust the foreigner!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985