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 forces of high-principled Mayor Joseph Clark Jr. are feuding with the patronage-minded party organization headed by U.S.
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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Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It upholds an impossible and undesirable ideal for childhood—the ideal of the sainted infant, cheerful, high-principled, devout, obedient, but neither natural nor child-like.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
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