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
No coward is the King of the Belgians, but a very sensitive and high-principled gentleman.
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Mr. Morgenthau is very high-principled, very modest about his limited financial ability, very timid.
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He accuses Billy, in the presence of high-principled Captain Vere, of fomenting mutiny.
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She listened with absolute faith to all that her mother said on the subject, and determined to be high-principled and make the most of herself.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah