principled
adjective
prin·ci·pled
ˈprin(t)-s(ə-)pəld 
-sə-bəld
: exhibiting, based on, or characterized by principle
—often used in combination
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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
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Speaker Burrows is a principled conservative with a clear track record of championing values that reflect our faith and conservative ideology.
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This is one of the composer’s great paternal baritone roles: doting and demanding, warm yet principled, dads for whom the highest form of loyalty is the filial kind.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2025
The Wilson revealed here is poles apart from the man who proposed the principled Fourteen Points, pushed through a progressive income tax and child labor reforms, named the progressive judge Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court, and created the Federal Reserve system.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Speaker Burrows is a principled conservative with a clear track record of championing values that reflect our faith and conservative ideology.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
This is one of the composer’s great paternal baritone roles: doting and demanding, warm yet principled, dads for whom the highest form of loyalty is the filial kind.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Principled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/principled. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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principled
adjective
prin·ci·pled
ˈprin(t)-s(ə-)pəld
-sə-bəld
: based on or marked by principle
high-principled
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