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
Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do.
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
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
And so we find that the American girl who is well-bred, who is well-mannered and high-principled, may attend the theater and the dance with gentlemen, unchaperoned.
From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Eichler, Lillian
