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English
Etymology
From un- + principled.
Pronunciation
Adjective
unprincipled (comparative more unprincipled, superlative most unprincipled)
- Lacking moral values.
2025 January 23, David French, “Donald Trump Is Running Riot”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:That’s what Joe Biden did. His pardon of his son Hunter was understandable from a paternal perspective (what father wants to see his son in prison?), but it was inexcusably unprincipled.
Synonyms
Translations
lacking moral values
- Bulgarian: безпринципен (bg) (bezprincipen)
- Danish: principløs
- Dutch: principeloos (nl), beginselloos (nl), gewetenloos (nl)
- French: dénué de principes, sans scrupule, amoral (fr)
- German: gewissenlos (de), prinzipienlos, prinzipienfrei
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: prinsippløs, prinsipplaus
- Nynorsk: prinsipplaus
- Polish: niegodziwy (pl), bezpodstawny (pl)
- Russian: беспринци́пный (ru) (besprincípnyj)
- Spanish: sin escrúpulos, inescrupuloso m, ímprobo (es) m, de moral relajada, inmoral (es), sinvergüenza (es) m or f
- Ukrainian: безпринци́пний (bezpryncýpnyj)
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References
- Oxford English Dictionary