high-principled
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his six years at the Foreign Ministry, Brentano proved a zealous, high-principled advocate of European unity through such organizations as the Common Market and Euratom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vermont's example was more important than her numerical strength, for it disclosed the inmost thoughts of a group of intelligent, high-principled men, who were moved by an unselfish purpose and a solemn responsibility.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
