unprincipled

Example Sentences

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As she was older and a lawyer, she spoke out against such "unprincipled relationships" - and was punished by being detained for a night.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

The careers of men like Charles Ponzi, Jesse Livermore, and Ivan Boesky remind us that one unprincipled gambler can still cause immense damage to respectable shareholders, the market itself, and even the nation.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

First, there’s the popular 2007 soap opera “Paraíso Tropical,” in which he played an unprincipled businessman.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

During the 1990s he privately criticized the “barbarians” brought in by a new editor, Tina Brown, but admitted to Garrison Keillor his “own unprincipled connivance with the Tina regime.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

This was the decision that caused Hamilton to repeat his earlier characterizations of Burr as the unprincipled American Catiline, which in turn generated the newspaper reports containing the offensive word “despicable.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis