high-toned
or high-tone
having high principles; dignified.
having or aspiring to good taste, high standards, or refinement: He writes for a high-toned literary review.
affectedly stylish or genteel.
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How to use high-toned in a sentence
His message resonated with wealthy industrialists, high-toned educators, and even presidents.
College Must Be More Than Just a Classy Trade School | Michael S. Roth | August 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course, high-toned infidels do not consider themselves as debased as the natives of India.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardIs for a couple of copies of my medallion, as gilt-edged and high-toned as it is possible to make them.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonThe latter was a man of character, with lofty principles, while his living brother was far from being a high-toned person.
A Lieutenant at Eighteen | Oliver OpticJames Knowles so respected him that he allowed him to write anarchistic articles for his high-toned Nineteenth Century.
Comrade Kropotkin | Victor Robinson
He no longer slept in the haymow but had a room of his own and other rooms to rent to the "high-toned traveling men."
The Iron Puddler | James J. Davis
British Dictionary definitions for high-toned
having a superior social, moral, or intellectual quality
affectedly superior
high in tone
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