Usually means: Adhering strictly to moral values.
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  1. principled: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. principled: Merriam-Webster
  3. principled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. principled: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. principled: Collins English Dictionary
  6. principled: Vocabulary.com
  7. Principled, principled: Wordnik
  8. principled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. principled: Wiktionary
  10. principled: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. principled: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. principled: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Principled, principled: Dictionary.com
  14. principled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Principled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. principled: Rhymezone
  17. Principled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. principled: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. principled: FreeDictionary.org
  20. principled: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. principled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Based on, having, or manifesting principles
▸ adjective:  strongly adhering to, or heedful of, guiding beliefs or moral rules

Similar:
high-principled, preceptive, monothetic, principal, based, classical, fundamental, postulational, preceptual, dogmatic, more...

Opposite:
unprincipled, unethical, immoral, dishonest

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moral, ethical, pragmatic, political, religious, legal, philosophical, more...

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high principled, principled person, to decide in a principled legal fashion, a principled legal fashion, more...

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Similar:
high-principled, preceptive, monothetic, principal, based, classical, fundamental, postulational, preceptual, dogmatic, more...

Opposite:
unprincipled, unethical, immoral, dishonest

Types:
moral, ethical, pragmatic, political, religious, legal, philosophical, more...

Phrases:
high principled, principled person, to decide in a principled legal fashion, a principled legal fashion, more...

Colors:
    royal blue,     forest green,     burgundy,     charcoal,     maroon, more...



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