high-principled
Example Sentences
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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
Both these high-principled embodiments of monarchy were young once; both married for love, neither of them ever got over it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Morgenthau is very high-principled, very modest about his limited financial ability, very timid.
From Time Magazine Archive
The forces of high-principled Mayor Joseph Clark Jr. are feuding with the patronage-minded party organization headed by U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was extremely high-principled and conscientious, a plodding worker, and always anxious to uphold the general tone and credit of the school.
From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela
