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UK
/pɹˈɪnsɪpəld/
]
[ US /ˈpɹɪnsəpəɫd/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪnsəpəɫd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality
a principled person
principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency
How To Use principled In A Sentence
- Break them and await arrest in willful, principled civil disobedience. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rhetoric of Opposition
- Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery? John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
- Little Women is a cheerful, wholesome account of the daily life of a highly principled family.
- It is not a totally unprincipled choice since the degree of foreseeability required may be varied with the kind and extent of the damage, and the nature of the relationship between the parties.
- He is both an insider and outsider, in filial and affiliated bonds with his home and his present, and he is connected to the various sectors of Vietnamese society and to the Westerners through a principled ethics.
- You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues.
- The decision to come out fighting to restore standards in higher education was principled and courageous.
- This liberates us to be both principled and pragmatic!
- We're dedicated to a principled stand, it's in the national interest and we'll be standing by that.
- The throne was no longer at issue; now she was merely an eccentric noblewoman running from an unprincipled enemy.