principled
adjective
imbued with or having moral principles (often used in combination).
well-principled
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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
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
At present, there is much which hurts the eye and ear of a well-educated and well-principled Englishman.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
She wrote to me that he was the best, most upright, well-principled, kind-hearted fellow in the world.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
