| 单词 | principled |
| 释义 | principled (once / 2651 pages) adj If you decide to take a lower grade rather than cheat on a test, you are making a principled decision, or one that is based on moral rightness. Most people have a set of principles or basic moral rules that they follow. These might include not stealing, not cheating, and treating people as you would like to be treated. Decisions made following these rules are principled, as are people who follow their principles often. If you take a principled stance on censorship, your defend or refute it actively based on your convictions. WORD FAMILYprincipled: unprincipled USAGE EXAMPLESBut this principled response, though valid, fails to address some big questions implicit in the populist complaint. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Attacking the most principled among themselves is an attack on Christians’ best chance for survival in the public square. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) Moreover, he is universally considered decent and able, pragmatic and principled, affable but steely. Economist(Oct 13, 2016) adj based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency a principled person Syn|Ant high-principled having high principles scrupuloushaving scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled unprincipled lacking principles or moral scruples unscrupulouswithout scruples or principles |
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