highroads
Principal travel arteries
Highroads is the plural of highroad, an old-fashioned term for a main road or highway.
The figurative sense dominates modern usage: the highroad (or high road) is the morally superior course of action, as opposed to the low road of pettiness or dishonesty.
When they went negative, she took the high road and focused on policy.
Moral soundness and consistency
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
honor · decency · rectitude · probity · uprightness · honesty · scruples · nobility
Oxygen-rich blood conduit
- routePath from A to B
- expresswayLimited-access highway
- freewayHighway without tolls
- turnpikeFee-charging highway
boulevard · motorway · interstate · carriageway · parkway · avenue · causeway · corridor
integrity
Moral soundness and consistency
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
righteousness · honor · decency · rectitude · probity · uprightness · honesty · scruples · nobility · dignity
artery
Oxygen-rich blood conduit
- routePath from A to B
- expresswayLimited-access highway
- freewayHighway without tolls
turnpike · boulevard · motorway · interstate · carriageway · parkway · avenue · causeway · corridor · passage
ambition
Desire for achievement
- goalsIntended end results
- successFavorable outcome attained
- achievementAccomplished goal or deed
excellence · potential · summit · peak · pinnacle · zenith · acme · upward · climbing · ascent
highroadsback roads
Minor rural thoroughfares
byways · backroads · backstreets · side streets · alleyways