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
Thrill-seeking disguised as high-mindedness might be an interesting idea to explore, and indeed Donald Margulies’s “Time Stands Still,” about a war journalist likewise returning to regular life, explored it movingly in 2010.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
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
Almost everyone’s cause goes threadbare at some point, and anyway, desire has a way of transcending politics and making such high-mindedness irrelevant.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2019
The hollering and the high-mindedness over, all that would be left would be another shabby little affair a la the Birmingham country club set, and a self-constructed private Gehenna with the latest Westinghouse appliances.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
