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
The Allied manifesto addressed to "leading" Spaniards was daring, high-principled and humane.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mr. Morgenthau is very high-principled, very modest about his limited financial ability, very timid.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But most Americans accepted these lofty abstractions as the noble aspirations of a sincere, high-principled man.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Madame Sabaroff is a proud woman, which comes to nearly the same thing as a high-principled one.
From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida