high ground

noun

1. a position of moral or ethical superiority.

   The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high ground¹

First recorded in 1480–90; current sense dates from 1800–10

Example Sentences

The outpost visited by The Wall Street Journal sits on high ground overlooking the now flattened neighborhood of Shujaiya.

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If showers fall over high ground - mainly above 400m - there is the chance these will turn to snow.

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For the wider electorate, even those with legitimate doubts about his character, it neutralized their concerns by depriving Democrats of any plausible claim to the moral high ground.

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Republicans think they have the political high ground.

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Chasiv Yar, which the Russians recently claimed to have captured, "is one of the last bits of high ground the Ukrainians control", he says.

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