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US
/ənˈpɹɪnsəpəɫd/
]
[ UK /ʌnpɹˈɪnsɪpəld/ ]
[ UK /ʌnpɹˈɪnsɪpəld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking principles or moral scruples
freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny - having little or no integrity
How To Use unprincipled In A Sentence
- There is neither harsh injustice nor unprincipled love nor Christological heresy in that; there is only unfathomable mercy.
- It is not a totally unprincipled choice since the degree of foreseeability required may be varied with the kind and extent of the damage, and the nature of the relationship between the parties.
- The throne was no longer at issue; now she was merely an eccentric noblewoman running from an unprincipled enemy.
- Part 3 introduces a scheme that is unworkable and unprincipled.
- Accused of being ‘unprincipled’ by an editor, he replied: ‘I have never toadied, nor lied, nor insulted.’
- Unprincipled accommodation will do harm to him.
- Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
- Blair's defiance is possible only because of the unprincipled character of the opposition he faces.
- He looked like a schoolboy socialist's dream - the leader of the left whose selfless devotion to democracy exposed his enemies as unprincipled cads.
- It's safer and it won't make other people seem as stupid as you are unprincipled.