principled

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality

From principle + -ed.

She is a most highly principled woman, with a very real sense of her responsibilities to the community. — The Seven Dials mystery, Agatha Christie
I trust that my two boys are not only too well principled, but too brave to act a coward's part, whatever might befall them. — The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
To be sure, the influence of such a character rarely reaches so far as that of the principled persecutor; but for every one of the latter, there are a hundred of these easy, doughy characters, who will fit any baking tin, to whom determinist self-excusing appeals; so the balance of evil between the two doctrines is about maintained. — Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre

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