well-principled
- a word derived from principled.
Example Sentences
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Liz never did get the men she coveted at various times of her long life, though one suitor seems to have committed suicide when Liz decided that he "was not sound-minded nor well-principled."
From Time Magazine Archive
As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
It was well that the girl had no evil tendencies and was, upon the whole, well-principled, warm-hearted, and good-natured, or she might have gone very grievously astray.
From Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life by Winslow, Margaret E.
Her love for him was very great; as great and disinterested as that with which the most religious and well-principled of women regard their offspring; but it did not blind her to his faults.
From Bred in the Bone by Payn, James
She was a well-principled, amiable, well-educated woman; and they lived happily together for twenty years.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
