as in immoral
not guided by or showing a concern for what is right
an unprincipled businessman who made a lot of money—and didn't care how he did it
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Recent Examples of unprincipled
This is not a way of saying that many salespeople are unprincipled professionals.
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Randy Illig, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
There are investigators that would do unethical, unprincipled things.
—Graham Kates, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
The eagerness to put self before country, of course, is the common thread between two profoundly unprincipled politicians, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
The answer: through concentration of nearly all Court appointment power into the purpuric hands of one corrupt and unprincipled Southern reactionary - the spectacularly sociopathic Mitch McConnell.
—Robert Hockett, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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Randy Illig, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
There are investigators that would do unethical, unprincipled things.
—Graham Kates, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
The eagerness to put self before country, of course, is the common thread between two profoundly unprincipled politicians, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
The answer: through concentration of nearly all Court appointment power into the purpuric hands of one corrupt and unprincipled Southern reactionary - the spectacularly sociopathic Mitch McConnell.
—Robert Hockett, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprincipled
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That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
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Regulated sportsbooks find gambling on minors immoral in some respects, but you guys don’t.Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Their life is interrupted by the arrival of a group of pale, ghostly white lions, an outsider tribe of scavengers led by the ruthless Kiros (Mads Mikkelsen), looking to occupy and control this land.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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Storks Are Fascinating Beyond Their Brood Reducing Ways Despite their ruthless parenting, storks are fascinating creatures with other interesting traits.Scott Travers, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Labor advocates, meanwhile, worry about the opposite happening: Enforcement against unscrupulous employers will fall by the wayside.Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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Remember Daraprim, a generic medicine whose price rose overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750 because of an unscrupulous Wall Street investor.Arthur E Palamara, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
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Years after witnessing the brutal death of his mother at the hands of Rana Singh (Sikandar Kher), a corrupt cop, Kid (Patel), opts to lean into the eye-for-an-eye approach.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
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There’s a corrupt teacher who, while not quite as downright evil as the serial killer that was Mark Jefferson in the first game, has done some pretty bad things in the pursuit of recognition.Ryan Easby, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Unprincipled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprincipled. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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