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
No coward is the King of the Belgians, but a very sensitive and high-principled gentleman.
From Time Magazine Archive
But most Americans accepted these lofty abstractions as the noble aspirations of a sincere, high-principled man.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his high-principled sincerity usually convinced his detractors that he was crazy and comparatively harmless.
From Time Magazine Archive
His home life, his religious life, his civic life, his professional relations with both colleague and patient, his hospital relations, were such as befit a high-principled man.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
