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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
Denis Kearney

Meaning of "unprincipled" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNPRINCIPLED

unprincipled  [ʌnˈprɪnsɪpəld] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNPRINCIPLED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unprincipled is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNPRINCIPLED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unprincipled in the English dictionary

The definition of unprincipled in the dictionary is lacking moral principles; unscrupulous. Other definition of unprincipled is not versed in the principles of.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNPRINCIPLED


coupled
ˈkʌpəld
crippled
ˈkrɪpəld
crumpled
ˈkrʌmpəld
cupelled
ˈkjuːpəld
high-principled
ˌhaɪˈprɪnsɪpəld
opaled
ˈəʊpəld
pimpled
ˈpɪmpəld
principled
ˈprɪnsɪpəld
rumpled
ˈrʌmpəld
steepled
ˈstiːpəld
uncrippled
ʌnˈkrɪpəld
underpeopled
ˌʌndəˈpiːpəld
unexampled
ˌʌnɪɡˈzɑːmpəld
unrumpled
ʌnˈrʌmpəld
unsampled
ʌnˈsɑːmpəld
unscrupled
ʌnˈskruːpəld
untrampled
ʌnˈtræmpəld

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNPRINCIPLED

unprettiness
unpretty
unprevailing
unpreventable
unprevented
unpriced
unpriest
unpriestly
unprimed
unprincely
unprincipledness
unprintable
unprintableness
unprintably
unprinted
unprisable
unprison
unprivileged
unprizable
unprized

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNPRINCIPLED

air-cooled
called
controlled
dappled
detailed
dimpled
direct coupled
entitled
failed
filled
handled
installed
interpled
led
pled
scheduled
sealed
skilled
templed
untitled

Synonyms and antonyms of unprincipled in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNPRINCIPLED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unprincipled» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unprincipled

Translation of «unprincipled» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNPRINCIPLED

Find out the translation of unprincipled to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unprincipled from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unprincipled» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无原则
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin principios
570 millions of speakers

English

unprincipled
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनैतिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المجرد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

беспринципный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sem princípios
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনাচারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans scrupules
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak berprinsip
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prinzipienlose
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無節操
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

방탕 한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora prasaja
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bất lương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொள்கையற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अकुशल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ahlaksız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

unprincipled
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bez zasad
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безпринципний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neprincipial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασυνείδητοι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beginsellose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

principlös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prinsippløst
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unprincipled

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNPRINCIPLED»

The term «unprincipled» is normally little used and occupies the 110.526 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNPRINCIPLED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unprincipled

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7 QUOTES WITH «UNPRINCIPLED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unprincipled.
1
Al Capp
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
2
George Combe
And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.
3
Julia Ward Howe
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
4
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
5
Denis Kearney
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
6
Cliff Robertson
Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.
7
Lysander Spooner
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNPRINCIPLED»

Discover the use of unprincipled in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unprincipled and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency
"Unprincipled Virtue attempts to answer this question, introducing a new theory of moral worth based on the quality of will an action expresses and offering a fresh perspective on moral responsibility, autonomy, rationality, and the self.
Nomy Arpaly, 2003
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Unprincipled Virtue : An Inquiry Into Moral Agency: An ...
By questioning the notion that our own minds are comprehensible to us--and therefore questioning much of the current work of action theorists and ethicists--Arpaly attempts to develop a more realistic conception of moral agency.
Nomy Arpaly Assistant Professor of Philosophy Brown University, 2002
3
Religion, Education and the State: An Unprincipled Doctrine ...
This volume critically examines the development of jurisprudence relating to religion in schools since Everson v. Board of Education, where the US Supreme Court discussed the wall of separation between Church and State.
Mr Mark Strasser, 2013
4
Big Lizard, Hidden Spider: And Other Unprincipled Persons ...
Big Lizard, Hidden Spider is a novel about a city and the misfits that find their ways within it, charged with arresting illustrations in its later pages.
Peter Gikandi, 2013
5
Bush v. Gore: The Question of Legitimacy
It was bad, not because its result was necessarily wrong but because it was unprincipled. It was dangerously bad because its lack of principle was naked and in a case that had the very highest visibility. And as such, it can all too readily serve ...
Bruce Ackerman, 2008
6
Most Dangerous Branch: How the Supreme Court of Canada Has ...
earlier writing about the Court, simultaneously calling me both a "left-" and a " right-wing" critic.3 In fact, the writing of legal academics about the Court and the Charter has been both sycophantic and unprincipled. SYCOPHANTIC James ...
Robert Ivan Martin, 2005
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Folk Psychological Narratives
6. Unprincipled. Embodied. Engagements. Dealing with the Developmental “ Paradox” The detour taken in the past three chapters was necessary in order to clarify the important distinction between intentional attitudes and propositional ...
Hutto
8
Profiles of the Patriarchs: Jacob: How an Unprincipled ...
He continued, This is no more than it should, considering how full that story is of instruction.
Cyril J. Barber, 2010
9
The Asiatic annual register or a view of the history of ...
Now, however, the determined resolution of extirpating that unprincipled race, the English, has been adopted from seeing their faithless cou- duct ; and the special retinue (meaning Dowlut Rao Scindia and his army) with this intention ...
‎1806
10
The addresses, speeches, squibs, songs, &c. which were ...
unprincipled coalition ? Surely too true Briton can think so. — Were the last desperate efforts of a sinking usurper, defeated on the ensanguined plains of Waterloo by an unprincipled eoaliton between Wel- LIN6TON and Blucher? Surely, he ...
R Cullum, 1818

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNPRINCIPLED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unprincipled is used in the context of the following news items.
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Predatory publishers criticised for 'unethical, unprincipled' tactics
They create copycat 'science journals', exploit academic authors and publish junk 'peer reviewed' science. Hagar Cohen investigates one of the biggest of the ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
2
EFF slams 'unprincipled' Nkandla committee
The EFF has labelled opposition parties that are part of the ad hoc committee that is visiting President Jacob Zuma's private home in Nkandla as “unprincipled” ... «The Citizen, Jul 15»
3
Double Standards: 'Jovial' Lindsey Graham vs. Possibly …
Possibly 'Unprincipled' Scott Walker in New York Times ... was a "political lifer" who was definitely "obsessive" over politics, and possibly "unprincipled" as well. «NewsBusters, Jul 15»
4
UK and US demands to access encrypted data are 'unprincipled and …
Demands by US and British security agencies for access to encrypted communication data have been dealt a serious blow in a report by an influential group of ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
MCA: Pakatan parties 'irresponsible' and 'unprincipled'
PETALING JAYA: MCA has accused the Opposition allies of being "unprincipled" and "irresponsible" for their so-called new style of governing following the ... «The Star Online, Jun 15»
6
the column | BDS activists playing by unprincipled rules
It took a while, but after several years of Israel divestment measures passing at college campuses nationwide, the Jewish community finally realized BDS is a ... «Jweekly.com, Jun 15»
7
Stephen Harper's Unprincipled and Inconsistent Foreign Policy
Harper's foreign policy in Ukraine was uninformed and unprincipled. And in order to defend Ukraine from invasion, Harper announced in April of this year that ... «Antiwar.com, May 15»
8
The Guardian view on Theresa May's censorship plan: pointless and …
The Guardian view on Theresa May's censorship plan: pointless and unprincipled. Editorial. The home secretary's suggestion of asking Ofcom to vet ... «The Guardian, May 15»
9
A British election that is 'genuinely unprincipled'
This election is the first in the history of the 300-year parliamentary process to be genuinely unprincipled. The philosophies that have hitherto dominated UK ... «South China Morning Post, May 15»
10
We floating voters may be unenthused but we're definitely not …
Undecided can mean unrepresented, unconvinced, unenthused and more besides, but it is not synonymous with unthinking or unprincipled. Political beliefs ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»

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