Unprincipled
[ʌn'prɪnsɪp(ə)ld] or [ʌn'prɪnsəpld]
Definition
(adj.) having little or no integrity .
(adj.) lacking principles or moral scruples; 'freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny'- A.E.Stevenson .
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Definition
(a.) Being without principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Immoral, wicked, vicious, bad, knavish, roguish, dishonest, trickish, TRICKY.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EXCEPTIONAL_and_RARE]
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Definition
adj. without settled principles: not restrained by conscience: profligate.—v.t. Unprin′ciple to destroy the moral principles of.—n. Unprin′cipledness.
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Examples
- In their eyes, it appears, I hold the position of an unprincipled impostor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The tons of sentiment I have wasted on that unprincipled humbug in my ignorance! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work--one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She quivered with indignation at the account of the conduct of the miserable Rawdon and the unprincipled Steyne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- An unprincipled, gambling little jackanapes! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And he is anything but an unprincipled man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Giacinta was unprincipled and violent: I tired of her in three months. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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