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Antonyms for principled
ˈprɪn sə pəldprin·ci·pled
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Princeton's WordNet
principledadjective
based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality
"principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency"; "a principled person"
Antonyms:
unprincipled
Editors Contribution
amoral
(of a person or their behavior) acting in accordance with morality and showing recognition of right and wrong.
a principled politician
Submitted by rinat on May 13, 2016
How to use principled in a sentence?
You can have one election official, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to corrupt your entire state's process, you still have governors who are responsible to the people. You still have legislators who are responsible to the states that they serve, the districts they serve. It's incumbent upon all of us to make sure again our systems are sound and the people that have oversight of those systems are good, honest and fair and principled people.
I regret to say for 45 Republican senators to vote for a spurious constitutional objection to the coming impeachment trial was deeply, deeply irresponsible, only five Republican senators are willing to take a principled stand against this reckless and ill-advised effort by members of this body who are eager to excuse President Trump's campaign to overturn the election, and apparently, to excuse President Trump incitement to the mob that every one of us experienced in this Capitol.
From a principled, moral position, she is making a mistake, if she believes, as I do, that there is impeachable conduct ... Then she should say so.
The principled position that Assad must go because of the atrocities committed since the start of the civil war... is understandable and respectable, but perhaps it can be turned into a form of leverage in the (diplomatic) process which is just starting, let’s not forgot that when we fought Hitler, we had to make an alliance with Stalin who had killed more people than Hitler.
Justin Amash is Justin Amash and one of the most principled members of Congress, and, frankly, if Justin Amash is primaried, I'm going to do everything I can to help him.Richard Painter, a White House ethics lawyer under former President George W. Bush, tweeted that Scavino's call to action violated the Hatch Act by using Dan Scavino government position to influence an election, saying the Bush administration would have fired him for such behavior.
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