high-minded
Example Sentences
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That dynamic may partly account for why other high-minded millennial businesses haven’t fared well.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
The opera offers a look at how the Civil War ended with high-minded statesmanship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
He was a high-minded historian and literary critic who nevertheless loved writing about rugby and cricket.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
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 knew the relaxed patois of the South Side and the high-minded diction of the Ivy League, and now on top of that I spoke Lawyer, too.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
