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Definition of high-principled in English: high-principledadjective Acting in accordance with morality and showing recognition of right and wrong. high-principled idealists bent on re-establishing democracy Example sentencesExamples - The hard-hitting, high-principled, investigative journalists of this country have no price.
- He urged those gathered to "remain high-principled people who care about spiritual values rather than material goods."
- Behind the high-principled arguments debated before the courts and the cameras, there is a single-minded quest to get and keep the power of office.
- He was a very high-principled young man, who was a model citizen.
- His success in politics is not merely that of a courageous adventurer but that of a shrewd and high-principled man.
- Cynics would argue that the life companies' high-principled mantra - that mutual status means they are predisposed to do their utmost to benefit their policyholders - is pure hogwash.
- Unfailingly loyal, high-principled, but tolerant, courageous, and apparently tireless, she enjoyed indifferent health and slept little.
- As colonial secretary he was efficient, high-principled, and even-tempered, and was willing to make allowances for the difficulties of his governors.
- They would have to be very high-principled to reject the chance of getting something for nothing.
- In an age that favours froth over substance, and in a tough political world where simple ideas have to be hammered home, the presence of this high-principled intellectual is an anachronism.
Definition of high-principled in US English: high-principledadjectiveˌhīˈprinsəpəldˌhaɪˈprɪnsəpəld Acting in accordance with morality and showing recognition of right and wrong. high-principled idealists bent on re-establishing democracy Example sentencesExamples - In an age that favours froth over substance, and in a tough political world where simple ideas have to be hammered home, the presence of this high-principled intellectual is an anachronism.
- Cynics would argue that the life companies' high-principled mantra - that mutual status means they are predisposed to do their utmost to benefit their policyholders - is pure hogwash.
- He urged those gathered to "remain high-principled people who care about spiritual values rather than material goods."
- His success in politics is not merely that of a courageous adventurer but that of a shrewd and high-principled man.
- Behind the high-principled arguments debated before the courts and the cameras, there is a single-minded quest to get and keep the power of office.
- The hard-hitting, high-principled, investigative journalists of this country have no price.
- They would have to be very high-principled to reject the chance of getting something for nothing.
- As colonial secretary he was efficient, high-principled, and even-tempered, and was willing to make allowances for the difficulties of his governors.
- Unfailingly loyal, high-principled, but tolerant, courageous, and apparently tireless, she enjoyed indifferent health and slept little.
- He was a very high-principled young man, who was a model citizen.
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