unprincipled

How To Use unprincipled In A Sentence

• The foreigner gained time to anarchize by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order: and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
• Kirsteen had known vaguely that her sister was supposed to be in Glasgow, which was something like an aggravation of her offence: for to live among what Miss Eelen called the fremd in a large town was the sort of unprincipled preference of evil to good which was to be expected from a girl who had married beneath her; but to find herself confronted with Anne was a contingency which had never occurred to her. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
• They it is (along with the unprincipled Liberal ‘Democrats’) who advocate a Treaty which not only erodes our sovereignty by way of elimination of some 60 vetoes, but gives to the EU all the attributes it needs to call itself a sovereign independent state as that phrase is understood in customary international law. Archive 2007-12-23
• Hitting back, the toffs accuse the radicals of being idle, licentious and unprincipled. Times, Sunday Times
• The foreigner gained time to anarchise by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order; and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte. Letters
• Is this the unprincipled pliability I detest in the people I put up with at Rome?
• In short, Berenice’s diamond cast her as a reincarnation of Cleopatra, come to make trouble and spread her alien, unprincipled foreign ways. Caesars’ Wives
• There could hardly be a more graphic illustration of how putting power in the hands of unprincipled people can bring a community down, if it yields to such pressure.
• These castles afford another evidence that the fictions of romantick chivalry had for their basis the real manners of the feudal times, when every Lord of a seignory lived in his hold lawless and unaccountable, with all the licentiousness and insolence of uncontested superiority and unprincipled power. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
• He called his iniquitous vices, follies -- his licentiousness, love of pleasure -- his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called "fashion" -- the fashion of the young men of the day. The Kellys and the O'Kellys