unprincipled

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ principled.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈpɹɪnsɪpəld/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

unprincipled (comparative more unprincipled, superlative most unprincipled)

1. Lacking moral values.
   • 2025 January 23, David French, “Donald Trump Is Running Riot”, in The New York Times‎^[1], 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.

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Synonyms

• licentious, immoral

Related terms

• principled
• principle

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)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary