Definition of principled in English: principled
adjective 1 (of a person or their behaviour) acting in accordance with morality and showing recognition of right and wrong.
‘a principled politician’
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‘We must have principled leaders who define all of life by principles and not expediency.’ ‘He is an independent minded and principled man, who is very different from most private eye characters.’ ‘Passionate and principled democrats were slow to recognise the dangers posed by totalitarianism 60 years ago.’ ‘When you must make decisions about marriages, you are obliged to be consistent and principled.’ ‘As a result, his former image as a political operator was replaced by that of a principled leader.’ ‘Particular mention should be made of Mike Kelly, who remains the most principled man it's ever been my good fortune to meet.’ ‘I respect her, because at least she is principled - she believes in what she has put up here.’ ‘Duff sometimes behaved like a cad to his women; in politics, he was a model of principled behaviour.’ ‘Little Women is a cheerful, wholesome account of the daily life of a highly principled family.’ ‘They showed that far from being apathetic, they are principled, dynamic and determined to make a difference.’ ‘If he was principled at all and believed that these things should be done, he would have spoken out.’ ‘Kevin was principled, courageous, incorruptible, unselfish and a man of great integrity.’ ‘He saw him as a principled man who openly spoke out his thoughts on any issue of the nation, but never wishing to malign or discredit others.’ ‘He was one of the very few people of principled honesty that I had met, thus becoming an inspiration to me, and will be deeply missed.’ ‘How can you ever again position yourself as a principled candidate in this election?’ ‘What a doughty, principled fighter for pensioners that McLennan is.’ ‘The welcome sign of a principled politician is the desire to risk everything for change.’ ‘More specifically, toward whom should he have looked as an example, this deeply moral and principled man?’ ‘He's a pretty principled guy and isn't interested in the money - which is just as well because we're not paying him.’ ‘Whistleblowers are highly principled people who are in the job because they thought they could do it in an ethical manner.’ Synonyms
moral , ethical, good, virtuous, righteous, upright, upstanding, high-minded, right-minded, proper, correct, honourable, honest, just, noble, incorruptible, anti-corruption, scrupulous, conscientious, respectable, decent
View synonyms 2 (of a system or method) based on a given set of rules.
‘a coherent and principled approach’
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‘The point of a radical move to restore the rule of law is that it offers both parties a principled basis for agreement.’ ‘There is the example she set, her very principled approach to life which she demonstrated, rather than preached.’ ‘It would help if the government actually knew what it wanted, and held a principled position one way or the other.’ ‘It is impossible to base principled politics on the ‘bad man’ theory of history.’ ‘As such cases show, if we give weight to both equality and utility, we have no principled way to assess their relative importance.’ ‘The following statements are admitted under the principled approach to hearsay.’ ‘If courts are to intervene by the imposition of public law standards upon a private body they must adopt a careful and principled approach.’ ‘But there are several reductions of arithmetic to set theory, and seemingly no principled way to decide between them.’ ‘The Greens support taking a principled approach to this legislation.’ ‘Worse, what is the principled basis by which we weight the importance of the properties in the bundle?’ ‘That should apply to all the parties seeking a principled accommodation.’ ‘One therefore has to decide which should be given priority in any given situation and one should do this in a principled way.’ ‘If he maintains such a principled approach in the subsequent campaign, I thought, he might even be able to turn public opinion around.’ ‘I think you have to deal with it in a bit more principled way than that.’ ‘It has won a considerable global readership as the result of its principled approach.’ ‘However, she said, she was taking a principled rather than a technical decision.’ ‘He has paid a significant price for his principled approach to politics.’ ‘This demonstrates again a pragmatic rather than a principled approach.’ ‘It says that there is no principled way to decide that some limitations on land use are takings and others are not.’ ‘These five justices have all the right in the world to have their own principled way of interpreting the constitution.’ Pronunciation principled /ˈprɪnsɪp(ə)ld/