How To Use Unprincipled In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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Hitting back, the toffs accuse the radicals of being idle, licentious and unprincipled.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Is this the unprincipled pliability I detest in the people I put up with at Rome?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
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A snollygoster, for example, is a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later events proved him in fact to have been a ‘daring and unprincipled scoundrel’.
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History shows us that it is in exactly such times that unprincipled men such as Schröder can be expected to do crazy things.
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YB M. Kulasegaran lambasted Devamany as a "lalang" (unprincipled person).
WN.com - Articles related to Sarkozy woos City bankers with promise of Paris tax break
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I'm going to be unsparing here, because I think any escort who works in such an unprincipled manner deserves trouble.
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Your builder would appear to be one of those unprincipled persons.
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Wales; where he insinuated himself into the acquaintance of Mrs. Ecton, just after she had married Miss Melmond to Mr. Berlinton: and though this was not an intercourse that could travel to Gretna Green, the beauty and romantic turn of the bride of so disproportioned a marriage, opened to his unprincipled mind a scheme yet more flagitious.
Camilla
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M. Kulasegaran lambasted Devamany as a "lalang" (unprincipled person).
WN.com - Articles related to Sarkozy woos City bankers with promise of Paris tax break
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In reality, its just one more time that you will show that you are simply an unprincipled coward.
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Hitting back, the toffs accuse the radicals of being idle, licentious and unprincipled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
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The attitude taken by the Post highlights the hypocritical and unprincipled character of its criticisms of the Bush administration.
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With cruel cunning and ingenuity surpassed only by man, this depraved and unprincipled insect perforates the struggling caterpillar, and deposits her eggs in the living, writhing body of her victim.
Parasite Rex
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Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Comprehensive, too, can mean unprincipled inclusiveness, the inclusiveness of the syllabus or the anthology.
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The fact that he was an unprincipled liar whose election was bought with Mafia help counted for nothing.
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Their conduct was symptomatic of the unprincipled character of the entire project.
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But in actuality, disambiguation is not unprincipled and random; rather, it is usually quite predictable.
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Did not DAN O'CONNELL, in his famous vituperative contest with a Dublin washer-woman, triumph in the long-run by calling her an unprincipled parallelopiped?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917
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The great majority of revolutionary populists resolutely rejected the deception and unprincipled adventurism of a few untypical deviants like Nechaev.
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The setting ranged from rural villages to imperial cities, from the emperor himself to starving peasants, from high-principled Buddhists to unprincipled prefects.
Outlaws of the Marsh
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principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency
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Being accompanied by the span-new silken affair with the golden head, which, as I have narrated _supra_, I was so lucky to obtain promiscuously after witnessing the Adelphi of the Westminster college boys, I naturally protested vehemently against such arbitrary and tyrannical regulations, urging the risk of my unprotected umbrella being feloniously abducted during unavoidable absence by some unprincipled and illegitimate claimant.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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Such concerns are legitimate, but to form a political alliance with the extreme right of the Republican Party on this basis is unprincipled and reactionary.
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Congressional Republicans should not try to outdo Mr. Obama in a game of unprincipled one-upmanship.
The GOP Plays Politics With the War Powers Resolution
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Because, Margo, we are not unprincipled and we do believe in forming a Government.
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I'm the first to admit that I think that John Kerry is a sleazy, unprincipled politician.
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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
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Perhaps you would prefer we returned to the unprincipled behaviour displayed by Keating and friends, conveniently termed diplomacy.
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She had never seen any thing that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust, anything that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits.
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They are classified as weak, insipid, temporizing, and unprincipled.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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To promote, such is the perversity of unprincipled prejudices, the future welfare of the very beings whose present existence they imbitter by the most despotic stretch of power.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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You are completely unprincipled and have no interest whatsoever in morals, justice or fairness of any kind.
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A young bank clerk who accompanied Crawley to the office was a type of what I might call the conscientiously unprincipled man.
A Girl Among the Anarchists
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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We say we know exactly what "moral" is: it is your unprincipled conscience in subjugation to irrational prejudice, in servitude to the mob, validated only by appeals to authority.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Ultimately any potential investors considering PETE SUMARUCK as a possible recipient of their hard-earned funds will be forced to rethink any notions of trusting such a scurrilous back-alley scallywag, slanderous liar, and unprincipled con-artist with any investments of any sort!
Peter Sumaruck II
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The Chicago Tribune called the oxbow an “outrage” perpetrated by “a set of unprincipled swindlers” intent on “building the road at the largest possible expense to the Government and the least possible expense to themselves.”
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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There is neither harsh injustice nor unprincipled love nor Christological heresy in that; there is only unfathomable mercy.
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But then given his ruthlessly unprincipled behaviour in 1975 such behaviour shouldn't be unexpected.
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Unprincipled, unpublishable in any legitimate commercial context, they drove prices down by their readiness to appear anywhere, do anything.
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Troublemakers: scapegrace ` wild and unprincipled, 'rakehell ` lewd and dissolute,' scarebabe (- bairn in Scotland), drawblood, flingbrand, blowcoal, makebate (as in ` debate '), stirpassion and stirstrife (why the wildflower loosestrife is accused of this propensity I know not), spitfire and shitefire
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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How a centre-right Christian party can support a godless and unprincipled Government beggars belief.
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Pure pragmatism is the antithesis of populism, and Washington tars politicians with mark of the unprincipled politician.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers think Repubs should associate with Tea Party. Disagree on whether independent run would help Crist
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The rejection of absolutism implicit in our constitutional structure may sometimes make our politics seem unprincipled.
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It's safer and it won't make other people seem as stupid as you are unprincipled.
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He looked like a schoolboy socialist's dream - the leader of the left whose selfless devotion to democracy exposed his enemies as unprincipled cads.
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Blair's defiance is possible only because of the unprincipled character of the opposition he faces.
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Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
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Unprincipled accommodation will do harm to him.
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Accused of being ‘unprincipled’ by an editor, he replied: ‘I have never toadied, nor lied, nor insulted.’
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Part 3 introduces a scheme that is unworkable and unprincipled.
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The throne was no longer at issue; now she was merely an eccentric noblewoman running from an unprincipled enemy.
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Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
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And since Bush is a canny and very unprincipled politician, he will not want to play in a game in which the odds are so heavily against him.
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How long can this schizophrenogenic behavior go on before it essentially cripples those same patriots--because their service and their patriotism can be rendered criminal on the slightest whim of this unprincipled coxcomb?
Archive 2009-05-01
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The rejection of absolutism implicit in our constitutional structure may sometimes make our politics seem unprincipled.
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They cling to the unprincipled safe middle of every issue.
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freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny
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If I can choose my enemy, I prefer an unprincipled politician to a disguised true believer.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
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The unprincipled behaviour of the Bush administration has been met with principled conduct and objections.
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brash, unprincipled, and conscienceless
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It is not a totally unprincipled choice since the degree of foreseeability required may be varied with the kind and extent of the damage, and the nature of the relationship between the parties.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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His youth having been marked by some digressions from the "'haviour of reputation," his profession was far from affording him a subsistence; and the revolution, which seems to have called forth all that was turbulent, unprincipled, or necessitous in the country, naturally found a partizan in an attorney without practice.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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Some unknown, unprincipled rascal wins a bunch of tickets for the first Test and promptly sells them on e-bay.
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When grasping and unprincipled people begin to test the patience of the general public, I believe they have something to worry about.
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As the news network has grown, so too has its appeal to the unprincipled media whores who care nothing for anything but personal fame, money and power.
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MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall.
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When grasping and unprincipled people begin to test the patience of the general public, I believe they have something to worry about.
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You are nothing but an uncouth, patronizing, unprincipled, rowdy group of misfits who aren't fit for any respectable job!
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Fontinell deplores the misconceptions of Pragmatism which characterize the movement as “a kind of unfeeling, unprincipled, non-idealistic, expediental response to human problems”.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky