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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Based on, marked by, or manifesting principle.
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- adjective Based on, having or manifesting
principles .
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- adjective based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality
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Examples
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Mr. Clinton said it is important to achieve what he called principled compromise in a time of divided government, without which he said there would be paralysis.
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Mr. Clinton said it is important to achieve what he called principled compromise in a time of divided government, without which he said there would be paralysis.
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And then you have got what I call the principled objectors.
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A certain principled conservative I have a good deal of respect for regards Niebuhr as a prophet.
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At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast hours before the summit, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich urged Republicans to engage in "principled, responsible, bipartisanship."
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He had a completely different set of dumb-ass reasons for opposing the Civil Rights Act. You see the same thing in principled pro-Sweat Shop (heh) pundits.
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The turn has been interpreted as tactical; accusations of political expediency turned on the thought that her earlier concern for the sanctity of human life had not been grounded in principled pacifism.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Of course the joker in the deck is the word principled before libertarian, and, as many online commentators have noted, Rand Paul is a bit more inclined to waffle on an interventionist foreign policy than is his father.
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All of the Axial Age faiths began in principled and visceral recoil from the unprecedented violence of their time.
The Great Transformation: Summary and book reviews of The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong. 2006
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Age faiths began in principled and visceral reaction against the unprecedented violence of their time.
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Words with the same meaning
- Christian
- blameless
- clean
- correct
- creditable
- decent
- erect
- estimable
- ethical
- fair
- full of integrity
- good
- high-minded
- high-principled
- highly respectable
- honest
- honorable
- immaculate
- inviolate
- irreproachable
- just
- law-abiding
- law-loving
- law-revering
- manly
- moral
- moralistic
- noble
- proper
- pure
- reputable
- respectable
- right
- right-minded
- righteous
- scrupulous
- spotless
- stainless
- sterling
- true-dealing
- true-devoted
- true-disposing
- true-souled
- true-spirited
- truehearted
- unblemished
- uncorrupt
- uncorrupted
- undefiled
- unimpeachable
- unspotted
- unstained
- unsullied
- untarnished
- upright
- uprighteous
- upstanding
- virtuous
- worthy
- yeomanly
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