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US
/ˈpəbɫɪkˈspɪɹɪtɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
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showing unselfish interest in the public welfare
a public-spirited citizen
How To Use public-spirited In A Sentence
- Policymakers must step in as the referees to determine how best to put this limited resource to its most public-spirited use. Jonathan Spalter: The Spectrum Shot Clock
- He was an intellectual and moral touchstone, of matchless integrity, selflessly public-spirited and civic-minded in a way that is harder and harder to find.
- Despite phone calls and emails, our man behind this public-spirited deed was completely blanked by the software empire.
- Let us persuade some of our more public-spirited representatives to introduce in Congress a Concurrent Resolution stating that for all legal purposes a "person" shall be a natural person. i.e., a human being. Paula Gordon: Who is "We"?
- Cotton, with an assist from this public-spirited pillar, has done his best to undo the damage caused by the hogwash.
- Any public-spirited citizen would have done the same.
- I admire the erudite and public-spirited members of the Montgomery County Board of Education. Why do great school systems fear charters?
- Public-spirited citizens wrote to the papers, declaiming against the maintenance of such a danger to the community, and demanding that the United States government build a national leprosarium on some remote island or isolated mountain peak. CHAPTER XXI
- Thinking of the beardie as a benign, public-spirited philanthropist is as out of date as flared trousers and Slade records. A rocky ride in the Commons for bank sale | Simon Hoggart's sketch
- That would also be a public-spirited and civic-minded thing for them to do. More hemming and hawing on Lents meeting procedure (Jack Bog's Blog)