high-principled
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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.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Spare, high-principled Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock was one of the group of bankers and politicians who founded the World in 1885.
From Time Magazine Archive
The high-principled minister is no such fighting gamecock as La Guardia, and Maurice Evans makes musicomedy wear a stiff collar where Tom Bosley fit the Little Flower like a glove.
From Time Magazine Archive
All meant well by Mr. Donkin, whom they adored, but their good intentions merely paved the way for his high-principled enemy's attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fool though I have been and still am, I was never fool enough to think I was worthy of gaining the love of a high-principled girl like Gertie Warden.
From Little Frida A Tale of the Black Forest by Anonymous
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