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Lacking moral scruples
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unprincipled
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy. ▪ She was unpredictable, and unprincipled where Paige was involved. ▪ The ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unprincipled \Un*prin"ci*pled\, a. [Pref. un- not + principled.] Being without principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle. -- Un*prin"ci*pled*ness , n.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. lacking principles or moral scruples; "freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny"- A.E.Stevenson [ant: principled ] having little or no integrity
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "not instructed" (in something), from un- (1) "not" + principled (adj.). Meaning "not honorable" is recorded from 1640s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. lacking moral values
Usage examples of unprincipled.
In the fourth month of his premiership he died at his post, leaving to posterity a great name, and an eternal reproach against his unprincipled persecutors.
The moral effect of this unprincipled vituperation upon the country was injurious to the party it was intended to serve, and lessened the confidence which the people had been accustomed to repose in the integrity of public men.
It needed only a word of admonition to Paula, and she at once recognised how improper it would be to hold further relations with so unprincipled a man.
Roman sorcerer roughly a thousand years ago, and it has been hesitantly preserved and recopied through the centuries by a few notably educated and unprincipled men.
Admiral del Falco, Commander Baldwin visible on his right, was waxing eloquent about the 'antics' of these 'unruly, undisciplined and unprincipled Talents 'I thought you kept more control on your people, Raven.
This may be easily imagined, when the character of the white people who inhabit the larger portion of these states is considered a class of people, the majority of whom are without feelings of honour, reckless in their habits, intemperate, unprincipled, and lawless, many of them having fled from the eastern states, as fraudulent bankrupts, swindlers, or committers of other crimes, which have subjected them to the penitentiaries —miscreants defying the climate, so that they can defy the laws.
The most important is that the rich in London, though unprincipled, are at pains to conceal the fact, which makes them vulnerable.
You will allow me to tell you that what I learned at Kimbolton brought me here with two overmastering desires: the first to bring you to book, and the second to shake the hand of the boy who tried to rescue from your clutches a girl whose youth and innocence must have protected her from any but an unprincipled villain!
I do not pretend that handsome presents, or places in my concerns for his nephew and natural sons, did not have their effect on him, but he was not a weak unprincipled man like this Castro, and he was capable of taking decisive action in support of his friends.
He can rationalize away all the deceitful, collusive, unprincipled things he does, dismiss them from his mind once they'd accomplished their purpose.
He can rationalize away all the deceitful, collusive, unprincipled things he does, dismiss them from his mind once they’.