Definition of principled
: exhibiting, based on, or characterized by principle
—often used in combination
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Examples of principled in a Sentence
She took a principled stand on funding public education.
a high-principled art expert who always told clients what he honestly thought their items were worth
Recent Examples of principled from the Web
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Giving public money to abortions was a principled but politically dumb decision, says a former member of Mr Rauner’s staff.
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Yet today, our collective ability to engage in principled compromise is waning.
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Now that the Justice Department is in on this sabotage-from-within, there’s little hope that the Trump administration can ever be trusted to take principled stances in court anymore.
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In some not-quite-definable way, the film itself is all of a piece with Rogers’s principled gentleness.
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She's evolved into a champion in every sense of the word, a person whose principled beliefs will be remembered long after the walls of Roland Garros come down.
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Change will come through principled engagement—not through storming out of the room.
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Kirstjen Nielsen’s Lies About Separating Families at the Border Tell Us Everything Win McNamee/Getty Images The Department of Homeland Security secretary was supposed to be one of the fabled principled White House officials.
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Where Your Mouth Is Swearing off meat is a principled choice, but don’t expect the industry to notice.
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First Known Use of principled
1635
principled Synonyms
Synonyms
decent, ethical, honest, honorable, just, noble, respectable, righteous, stand-up, upright, upstanding;
Antonyms
base, dishonest, dishonorable, ignoble, low, unethical, unjust, unprincipled, unrighteous, unworthy;
Near Antonyms
bad, corrupt, criminal, crooked, evil, immoral, iniquitous, knavish, mean, nefarious, rascally, reprehensible, roguish, rotten, scoundrelly, sinful;
unscrupulous, vile, villainous, wicked, wretched;
blamable, blameworthy, censurable, culpable;
debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, disgraceful, disreputable, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, perverse, perverted, profligate, reprobate, shameful, venal;
Related Words
blameless, guiltless, irreproachable, unassailable, unimpeachable;
chivalrous, high-minded, right-minded;
conscientious, fair, good, incorruptible, moral, reputable, respected, scrupulous, uncorrupted, virtuous;
PRINCIPLED Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of principled for English Language Learners
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: having, based on, or relating to strong beliefs about what is right and wrong
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