Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking principles or moral scruples; unscrupulous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not having settled principles; not grounded in principle.
- Having no sound moral principles; destitute of virtue; not restrained by conscience; profligate; immoral.
- Not resulting from good principles; iniquitous; wicked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being without principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective lacking
moral values
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having little or no integrity
- adjective lacking principles or moral scruples
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Examples
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He's in real danger of being defined as unprincipled, be it in how he campaigns or the fact he's turned himself into Bush III.
The Politics Of Mockery, Part 2: Obama Again Hits McCain Over Tire-Gauge Stunt 2009
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He must be not only easy-going, but unprincipled, -- unprincipled, that is, rather in the sense of having no particular principles of any kind than in that of possessing and practising notoriously bad ones.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891 Various
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"These two top Tories are what my father - himself an Old Etonian - would have called unprincipled spivs," he said.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Tim Ross 2011
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"These two top Tories are what my father - himself an Old Etonian - would have called unprincipled spivs," he said.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Tim Ross 2011
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Those that want to win at the cost of any and all principles can unequivocally be considered "unprincipled".
Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move 2009
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I'm not ready to label "unprincipled" legislators that permit you to have your own money.
Debating Forced Saving, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We HAVE to TAKE control of our govenment, not feel honored that Obama felt the need to reiterate his lies again to a bunch of what, what are they Mr. Sargent - a group of "unprincipled" Dems who want to know WHY Obama flip-flopped but get nothing in the way a earnest, worthwhile explanation?
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It is too easy to blame the British government for an "unprincipled" stance.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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This not only makes a mockery of due process; it also leaves the government -- and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in particular -- looking like the last bastion of the kind of unprincipled and unfettered executive power embraced by former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief of staff David Addington, the architects of the "War on Terror."
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This bullshit about Hillary being "unprincipled" or "only interested in winning" makes my skin crawl.
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