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Recent Examples of unprincipled Cazale excelled, instead, at playing people who are weak, weird, unprincipled, and visibly uncomfortable in their own skins. Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024 This is not a way of saying that many salespeople are unprincipled professionals. 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 See All Example Sentences for unprincipled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprincipled
Adjective
  • The campaign materials were unequivocal: Worley believed LGBT influences in society were immoral.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
  • And so Rose, immortal on the field, with a bat, was judged immoral off it by the saints who guard baseball’s gate.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Whoever sells the most wins a car; whoever sells the least is out of a job – a ruthless environment where each character will do anything to come out on top.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
  • However, his plans to go straight are threatened when his final heist spirals out of control, pulling him into a deadly game of survival against ruthless criminals—including the unhinged Bats (Jamie Foxx) and the wild coupling of Buddy (Jon Hamm) and Darling (Eiza González).
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In this John le Carré adaptation, Brosnan plays Andy Osnard, a disgraced, unscrupulous, but unfailingly charming MI6 agent who sees a new assignment in an ultracorrupt Panama as a chance to accumulate money and power.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Michael Douglas — Wall Street (1987) Gordon Gekko is a cunning and unscrupulous corporate predator who crystallized the Reagan-era ethos into three words.
    EW.com, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already?
    Bluesky Social, Bluesky Social, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The American people registered their verdict on the bloated, corrupt federal bureaucracy on November 5, 2024 by voting for President Trump and his promises to sweepingly reform the federal government.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025

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