high-minded

Example Sentences

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It was once the job of “sleazy” tabloids to destroy lives with lurid gossip that titillated the public but lacked public interest in the high-minded sense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

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

That’s not some high-minded ideal — it should be the bare minimum.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2025

But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo’s expression, as if he could not believe she was not quite as high-minded as he had thought.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie