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单词 high-principled
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Definition of high-principled in English:

high-principled

adjective
  • 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-principled

adjectiveˌhīˈprinsəpəldˌhaɪˈprɪnsəpəld
  • 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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