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principled

based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality

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Six example sentences with principled, each labelled with its topic.

  • The judge earned a principled reputation by ruling against friends of the governor who had appointed her.

    Law

  • Her principled refusal to take the contract cost the agency a quarter of its revenue and won three better clients.

    Business

  • A principled vegetarian will refuse the broth as well, since the reasoning does not stop at the visible meat.

    Philosophy

  • Her principled stand against the emergency powers cost her the whip, and she voted alone from the back row afterward.

    Politics

  • The lab's principled refusal to drop inconvenient data points delayed the paper a year and saved its reputation later.

    Science

  • The founders made a principled choice never to sell user data, and they turned down two offers that depended on it.

    Startups

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