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as in honorable
following the accepted rules of moral conduct
a high-principled art expert who always told clients what he honestly thought their items were worth
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as in ethical
guided by or in accordance with one's sense of right and wrong
a politician widely respected for her principled behavior in every office she ever held
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Recent Examples of principled
Jae-Wan doesn’t think twice about taking on his new client, a fact that irks his jealous brother Jae-gyu (Jang Dong-gun) — a seemingly principled doctor who, along with his wife Yeon-kyung (Kim Hee-ae), care for the brothers’ mother.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
Yes, Owens deserves our praise for not only an exemplary career in journalism, but for his principled stance against the Trump administration’s attack on First Amendment rights.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2025
But legal scholars who found the rationales unconvincing said there is no principled reason for treating the Fed differently than the labor boards under a series of Supreme Court rulings that have upheld for-cause protections for certain agencies.
—John Kruzel, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
And although Peter fought for the rebel cause and now languishes in a Union prison camp, that principled act has led others to suspect his wife of less than ironclad loyalty.
—Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
Yes, Owens deserves our praise for not only an exemplary career in journalism, but for his principled stance against the Trump administration’s attack on First Amendment rights.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2025
But legal scholars who found the rationales unconvincing said there is no principled reason for treating the Fed differently than the labor boards under a series of Supreme Court rulings that have upheld for-cause protections for certain agencies.
—John Kruzel, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
And although Peter fought for the rebel cause and now languishes in a Union prison camp, that principled act has led others to suspect his wife of less than ironclad loyalty.
—Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for principled
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The comparison with Lexus is honorable but not accurate.—
Josh Max,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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We were honored because our parents were honorable.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
19 May 2025
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The woman's family later filed a lawsuit against Willet and his organization, questioning the circumstances surrounding her death and the legal and ethical oversight — or lack thereof — in her use of the pod, per the outlets.—
Christina Coulter,
People.com,
3 June 2025
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Skills like empathy, cultural understanding and ethical decision-making can’t be replicated by algorithms.—
Braden Yuill,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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So much of it feels like a fever dream, to be honest, being in Singapore.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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Players appreciated such an honest approach during the Euro 2022 campaign, which garnered mutual respect and trust.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Judges sometimes make decisions that are objectionable from a moral and legal standpoint.—
Michael Gregory,
The Conversation,
23 May 2025
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Kehlmann exercises the same liberties as Doctorow, yet what holds his fictional whirlwind together is not sensation but an appalling portrait of Europe in a state of emotional and moral disintegration.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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The maximum charging speed is a respectable 128 kW for the larger battery and 102 kW for the smaller one, which equates to a charge from 10% to 80% in 31 minutes.—
Utkarsh Sood,
New Atlas,
24 May 2025
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Duchene has a respectable 18 individual scoring chances in the playoffs, per Natural Stat Trick, including 11 high-danger ones.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Hybrid tea roses are the classic case as continual new waves of flowers depend on conscientious removal of spent blooms.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
24 May 2025
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And a committed Marxist's cold-blooded murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night was the natural and inevitable consequence of a conscientious, years-long campaign to dehumanize Jews and otherize all supporters of the world's only Jewish state.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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“Principled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/principled. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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