Example sentences for: high-minded

How can you use “high-minded” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Namely, if you don't accept my argument then you are a smug, high-minded sophisticate.

  • Like Bradley, Tsongas was a high-minded reformer who appealed most strongly to educated, affluent voters in the Northeast.

  • No one comes off without stereotyping, but it's like Shakespeare and Shylock (if I may get all high-minded on you again): A good writer takes stereotypes and turns them into characters, which in turns makes you reconsider the stereotypes.

  • Silicon Valley supports an influential, though high-minded, political action committee--TechNet--to sway the government's position on encryption, Internet taxation, and shareholder lawsuits.

  • It amounted, Toobin argues, to a "high-minded rationale for covering the sex lives of famous people" that satisfied a "hunger for sleaze" in a "competitive market for journalists and journalism."


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