The phrase
"principled thing" refers to doing something according to your personal beliefs and values. It means making decisions based on what you think is right or wrong, and sticking to those principles.
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Synonyms for individual words can be found below.
«principled»
«thing»
Sentences with «principled thing»
- Finally a government may just decide to make it legal in a bid to secure votes, it's not the most principled thing to do but similar things have happened before. (politics.stackexchange.com)
- In summary, anarchy only recognizes a few key laws - if you really want to stretch things and call them «laws»; I'd rather call them principles (politics.stackexchange.com)
- The only principled thing all those ADS sufferers can do is remove all their works from the Evil McEvil corporation and sell them only through virtuous megacorps like B&N, with maybe a couple of bones thrown at Smashwords so Coker & Co. don't have to figure out how to improve their service and, well, compete. (madgeniusclub.com)
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