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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
principled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
stand
▪ Yet, even in opposition circles, intellectuals have refused to take a principled stand.
▪ If Pyongyang refuses, the allies will at least have taken a principled stand.
▪ For this principled stand, the village fined him $ 1, 500.
way
▪ Our interest is in political theories that require neutrality, i.e., that are followed by acting neutrally in a principled way.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ principled leadership
▪ principled opposition to the idea of lower taxation
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If Pyongyang refuses, the allies will at least have taken a principled stand.
▪ Indeed, it is one; but it scarcely shows any principled rejection of all government.
▪ It remains a solid, principled groundwork for world Trotskyism.
▪ Setting aside any principled notions that I have, which I do have, you know, it is purely pragmatic business.
▪ There were very principled disagreements on both sides.
▪ These examples suggest that there is a possible principled basis for the distinction between semantic and syntactic deviance.
▪ They substitute character attack and personal diatribe for principled debate and discussion of the issues.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Principled

Principle \Prin"ci*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Principled; p. pr. & vb. n. Principling.] To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.

Governors should be well principled.
--L'Estrange.

Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.
--Locke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
principled

"honorable, moral," 1690s, from principle, which was used as a verb 17c.-18c. meaning "to ground in principles."

Wiktionary
principled

a. Based on, having or manifesting principles.

WordNet
principled

adj. based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality; "principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency"; "a principled person" [ant: unprincipled]

Usage examples of "principled".

It is, however, more than evident, you cannot force them, principled and united as they are, to your unworthy terms of submission.

I lost myself in the Hitchcockian brilliance of the double crossings and treacherous dealings, the principled spies and the demonic Nazis.

The largest risk is that Edgars might find a powerful patron who is too principled to succumb to your bribe.

Parties, right up until 1912, the history of Bolshevism was the history of numerous and repeated attempts to unite the Party on a principled basis.

That was a principled stand, because all knew that his father, old Francis Blair, was close to Cameron, and forcing the Secretary of War to eat his words publicly would cause the Pennsylvania dealmaker great embarrassment.

Even so, what we regard as a tolerable level of internal corruption is -- thanks to our rules on financial transparency -- positively microscopic compared to that in just about every other organisation we do business with, and it is a matter of considerable pride for us that in any given transaction or deal we will almost without exception be the most honest and principled party involved.

If, on the other hand, they are proper, highly principled girls and do make a scene, I'll just claim that I was visiting the temple to pray for a son and that, on noticing some women in there already, I knelt down and kowtowed outside to avoid mixed company.