high-minded
adjective
having or showing high, exalted principles or feelings.
high-mindedness
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a word derived from
high-minded.
Example Sentences
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It is when Mary resigns herself to learning and high-mindedness that her life-scheme goes happily awry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
The experience, and her later workshop jobs, instilled in her a proletarian ethos very different from the aesthetic high-mindedness taught in England’s art schools.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
There are moments in “The French Dispatch” when it’s unclear if Anderson is paying tribute to the arch tone and middlebrow high-mindedness the New Yorker came to symbolize, or making a burlesque of it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021
“It’s not a good look and it’s being justified with high-mindedness like ‘democratisation’ of markets,” he warned.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2021
He paused, with an expression that she would come to know well, a virtuous narrowing of his eyes that announced the high-mindedness of their owner.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
