high-mindedness

noun

as in scrupulousness

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Recent Examples of high-mindedness That critique of American foreign policy – that US high-mindedness and democratic idealism conceal naked corporate interests – persisted through the Cold War and into the 21st Century. — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026 In exchange, the company burnishes its halo of high-mindedness, receives the right to feature famous works on its T-shirts, and gets to stage events in empty galleries or under an iconic glass pyramid, furthering the idea that its interests lie in Life as much as in Wear. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025 Yet somehow, in a medium of heavy copper, Fischl captures the lithe, swaying, physical vitality of Ashe, as well as the high-mindedness of the man who was so committed to social causes. — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high-mindedness
  1. scrupulousness
  2. respectability
  3. morality
  4. nobility
  5. virtue
  6. fairness
  7. decency
  8. conscientiousness
Noun
  • With such scrupulousness, Parton’s estate seemed primed to avoid the kind of posthumous infighting and chaos that so often consumes these institutions.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of scrupulousness
Noun
  • The match may have been arranged, with Gladys offering wealth and the duke respectability, but as the season dawns, the couple is deeply in love.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2026
  • If a suit traditionally signals conformity and respectability, corduroy gives it a louche edge.
    — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of respectability
Noun
  • Indeed, Morgenthau had less tolerance for those who failed to reconcile power with morality than for those who underestimated power’s importance.
    — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The horrors of the atomic bomb, America’s culpability and relation to postwar Japan, and the morality of revenge are major themes in Minus Zero.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of morality
Noun
  • Legal recognition of the country’s nobility stopped in 1946 and for aristocrats such as Princess Giacinta Ruspoli, upkeep of the family’s ancestral homes doesn’t come cheap.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Thomas Jefferson is believed to have loved these wines and today they are enjoyed by Italian nobility and discerning wine lovers the world over.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of nobility
Noun
  • Put another way, his entire belief system revolves around the virtues of second chances.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The exhibition explores the 18th century’s opposing facets of virtue and vice, as depicted in works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of virtue
Noun
  • Au Kam San, a Macao pro-democracy former lawmaker, was sentenced to 12½ years in prison after a closed-door trial that raised concerns about fairness in the Chinese casino hub's first national security case since the law was enacted in 2009.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Both rank highly among liberal democracies when assessing the fairness of elections, the rule of law, checks on the executive, trust in government, and media freedom.
    — Daniel Waldenstrom, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of fairness
Noun
  • The most consequential result of the midterms has been to break the fever of Trumpism and to diminish its threat to democratic institutions, to personal and civil liberties, and to decency itself.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Reflecting its subject himself, an aura of decency permeates the new drama depicting the wartime years of actor Jimmy Stewart’s life.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of decency
Noun
  • DiSC categorizes observable behavioral tendencies into four broad styles—dominance, influence, steadiness and conscientiousness—and can provide a framework for thinking about differences in communication and decision-making.
    — Ran Biderman, Forbes.com, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Could conscientiousness be related to satisfaction with your friendships?
    — Diego Guevara Beltran, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of conscientiousness

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