Unprincipled
adjective
Someone who does not follow moral rules or standards.
They are unprincipled individuals who are willing to lie and cheat.
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- unprincipled individual
- unprincipled behavior
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Disapproving
adjective
Not based on or showing any moral principles or rules.
His unprincipled actions caused harm to many people.
Often appears as...
- unprincipled actions
- unprincipled approach
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Disapproving
adjective
Someone who does not follow moral rules or standards.
They are unprincipled individuals who are willing to lie and cheat.
Often appears as...
- unprincipled individual
- unprincipled behavior
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Not based on or showing any moral principles or rules.
His unprincipled actions caused harm to many people.
Often appears as...
- unprincipled actions
- unprincipled approach
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Tone
The word 'unprincipled' carries a negative judgement and should be used carefully.
The company's unprincipled strategy was criticized by the public.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Accusation
'Unprincipled' is a strong word implying a lack of integrity, so use it for serious ethical breaches.
The lawyer's unprincipled tactics shocked the courtroom.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Nuance
Use 'unprincipled' to suggest someone has knowingly abandoned moral standards.
Despite her charm, she's quite unprincipled in business dealings.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Tone
The word 'unprincipled' carries a negative judgement and should be used carefully.
The company's unprincipled strategy was criticized by the public.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Accusation
'Unprincipled' is a strong word implying a lack of integrity, so use it for serious ethical breaches.
The lawyer's unprincipled tactics shocked the courtroom.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Nuance
Use 'unprincipled' to suggest someone has knowingly abandoned moral standards.
Despite her charm, she's quite unprincipled in business dealings.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Tone
The word 'unprincipled' carries a negative judgement and should be used carefully.
The company's unprincipled strategy was criticized by the public.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Accusation
'Unprincipled' is a strong word implying a lack of integrity, so use it for serious ethical breaches.
The lawyer's unprincipled tactics shocked the courtroom.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Nuance
Use 'unprincipled' to suggest someone has knowingly abandoned moral standards.
Despite her charm, she's quite unprincipled in business dealings.
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The philosophy of...
the satirist Lucian described the Cynics of his own time as unprincipled, materialistic, self-promoting hypocrites, who only preached what Diogenes had once actually practiced. Reading Lucian’s texts centuries later,
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The philosophy of...
the satirist Lucian described the Cynics of his own time as unprincipled, materialistic, self-promoting hypocrites, who only preached what Diogenes had once actually practiced. Reading Lucian’s texts centuries later,
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Lysander Spooner
American Philosopher
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.
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Cliff Robertson
American Actor
Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.
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Denis Kearney
American Politician
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
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George Combe
American Educator
And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
If you're a conservative who thinks the culture wars are over (they're never really over, of course), then you are a lot more open to the idea of a unprincipled blowhard who promises he's got your back on political correctness.
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Alex Pareene
American Writer
John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.
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Harriet Ann Jacobs
American Writer
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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Al Capp
American Cartoonist
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Julia Ward Howe
American Activist
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British Politician
Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.
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Lysander Spooner
American Philosopher
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.
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Cliff Robertson
American Actor
Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.
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Denis Kearney
American Politician
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
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George Combe
American Educator
And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
If you're a conservative who thinks the culture wars are over (they're never really over, of course), then you are a lot more open to the idea of a unprincipled blowhard who promises he's got your back on political correctness.
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Alex Pareene
American Writer
John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.
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Harriet Ann Jacobs
American Writer
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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Al Capp
American Cartoonist
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Julia Ward Howe
American Activist
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British Politician
Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.
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