unprincipled

Example Sentences

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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

"No-one can accuse me of not delivering, of bending under pressure or being unprincipled."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023

And it was for moral reasons and sporting interest that she left her school and her home to compete with a man whose fame as a great, unprincipled eater had spread throughout the country.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez