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
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
He recovered, and when last heard of was up to his old tricks again�an agnostic now, but as high-principled, experimentalizing as ever.
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
Mrs. Dean was too high-principled a woman to attempt to smooth over her own child’s offences.
From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline
