How to Use unprincipled in a Sentence

unprincipled

adjective
  • Trump, an unruly, unprincipled leader, must find them and hold them close.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2017
  • Yet Aster casts their motives as unprincipled and self-serving.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That doesn't enable cunning and unprincipled men to subvert the power of the people.
    — Lori A Bashian , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Too afraid to be seen as taking sides, consumer brands risk being seen as boring (best case) or even unprincipled (worst case) by conscious consumers.
    — Patricia Nakache, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
  • This is not a way of saying that many salespeople are unprincipled professionals.
    — Randy Illig, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Of course, prudent judgments can descend into unprincipled ones.
    — Adam J. White, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The real Mitchell was an unprincipled, profane creep, and Doman digs into all of that with relish.
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • All of this coincided with a period of unprincipled practices in the media.
    — Meg Walters, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Sam’s unprincipled pursuit of her confused principles gives the novel a loopy energy.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Georgians can send a clear message that voters will reward honest leadership and reject unprincipled politicians.
    — Larry Hogan, WSJ, 23 May 2022
  • In the past, that’s opened small businesses to frivolous lawsuits filed by unprincipled lawyers that file massive lawsuits and offer quick settlements.
    — Erica Goldstein, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • For daring to buck the system, Haywood became the target of intense criticism, as some white fans and sportswriters called him greedy and unprincipled.
    — Theresa Runstedtler, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The principled stance taken by the Baptists had mostly helped the unprincipled bootleggers.
    — Robert Paarlberg, Wired, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Parrilla has the more complex role; Bruiser is unprincipled and lacking in shame, yet generally correct and fair.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • If the field on which a powerful company plays the game of engagement is an unprincipled devotion to progress that is measured by quarterly earnings, then yes.
    — Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The link between these technologies and the fall in revenues led them to characterize music fans as unprincipled thieves obsessed with getting everything for free.
    — Rebecca Giblin Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Practically all the public’s attention has been on the president and his oddball or vengeful or unprincipled actions.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • For most people, the news that McConnell is being unprincipled will be roughly as surprising as the news that professional wrestling is staged.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The two eventually endorsed $2,000 but looked unprincipled in doing so.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Some of those efforts may be mere unprincipled emotional reactions; others may proceed from principles worthy of profound respect.
    — Joshua Prager, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026
  • Some who behaved impeccably on that sad day, like Pence, have now retreated into the fog of amnesia mixed with unprincipled party loyalty.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 June 2022
  • The show is about those things, but The Morning Show’s attempts to tell stories about them, and the characters themselves, reach for a numb, unprincipled emptiness.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Antoni is that rarity who has drawn harsh criticism from economists on the right as well as the mainstream for being ignorant, unprincipled, and incompetent.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In every era a certain kind of unprincipled demagogue driven by an insatiable need for attention and a sense of what will capture the public’s imagination rises to the fore.
    — Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In Panama an unprincipled spy enlists a tailor to gather information about the canal for the British government, but the details soon become lies.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • For over a decade, low interest rates and easy access to capital fueled a period of unprincipled growth in Silicon Valley.
    — Shubha Nabar, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • As obviously silly and unprincipled as these objections were, they were nevertheless treated as sincere.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Critics see a tangle of unprincipled hypocrisies—intellectual ground cover for banal shamelessness and techy self-interest.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021

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