Unprincipled

Definition: Unprincipled

Unprincipled

Adjective

1. Lacking principles or moral scruples; "freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny"- A.E.Stevenson.

2. Having little or no integrity.

Date "unprincipled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references)

Note: Unprincipled \Un*prin"ci*pled\, adjective. [Prefix un- not principled.]. (Websters 1913)

Antonym: principled (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vice	Unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unprincipled

English words defined with "unprincipled": Belial, black sheep ♦ conscienceless ♦ immoral ♦ Machiavelian ♦ principled ♦ scapegrace ♦ unconscionable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unprincipled": Cork. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

In short, she is unprincipled, relentless, and exacting; idle, unproductive, and tedious; unimaginative, humorless, and vain; vindictive, undignified, and weak. (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Bir�)

You're an unprincipled young man Hud. (Hud; writing credit: Harriet Frank Jr.; Larry McMurtry)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Fouché: the unprincipled patriot (reference) The unprincipled society : new demands and old politics (reference) Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry into Moral Agency (reference) (more book examples)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	In vain may we expect peace with the Indians on our frontiers so long as a lawless set of unprincipled wretches can violate the rights of hospitality, or infringe the most solemn treaties, without receiving the punishment they so justly merit.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unprincipled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unprincipled" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	60	43,597

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Language		Translations for "unprincipled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pa moral, i paskrupull (reprobate, unscrupulous). (various references)

Arabic		‏مجرد من المبادئ (unscrupulous), ‏مجرد من الأخلاق, ‏عديم الضمير (unconscionable, unscrupulous). (various references)

Bulgarian		безчестен (disgraceful, mean, rascal, villainous), безпринципен. (various references)

Czech		bezzásadový, bezcharakterní (spineless). (various references)

Farsi		هردمبیل (Slovenly), بی مسلک , بی مرام (Shyster, Unscrupulous). (various references)

Finnish		periaatteeton. (various references)

French		sans scrupules (unscrupulous), peu scrupuleux. (various references)

German		gewissenlos (irresponsible, unprincipledly, unscrupulous, unscrupulously), charakterlos. (various references)

Greek		άνευ αρχών, αδίστακτοσ (cold blooded, determined, ruthless). (various references)

Hebrew		חסר מצפון (unscrupulous). (various references)

Hungarian		elvtelen. (various references)

Italian		incostante (capricious, changeable, drifter, erratic, fickle, fitful, giddy, inconstant, variable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無節�"� (inconstant, unchastity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むせっそう (inconstant, unchastity). (various references)

Pig Latin		incipledunpray

Portuguese		sem princípios, sem escrúpulos (conscienceless, unscrupulous). (various references)

Romanian		fãrã scrupule (conscienceless, slippery). (various references)

Russian		беспринципный (unscrupulous), безнравственный (immoral, reprobate, unmoral, wicked). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neprincipijelan, nepošten (crooked, devious, dishonest, immoral, knavish, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous), nemoralan (cankered, immoral, non moral, vicious, wanton), bez načela. (various references)

Spanish		poco escrupuloso (unscrupulous). (various references)

Swedish		skrupelfri (unconscionable, unscrupulous), samvetslös (conscienceless, unconscionable, unscrupulous), principlös. (various references)

Turkish		prensipsiz, ahlaksızca olan, ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked). (various references)

Ukrainian		непринциповий, безпринципний (eclectic, viewless). (various references)

Vietnamese		vô luân thường; vô hạnh; bất lương. (various references)

Welsh		diegwyddor. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unprincipled": unprincipledness, unprinciplednesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unprincipled" (pronounced unpri"nsupuld)
10	-p r i" n s u p u l d	principled.
4	-p u l d	coupled, crippled, crumpled, dimpled, grappled, peopled, quadrupled, quintupled, rippled, rumpled, sampled, stapled, toppled, trampled, tripled.
3	-u l d	addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, crackled, credentialed, crumbled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, pickled, pummeled, puzzled, quarreled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, saddled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, totaled, totalled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-p-r-u"
	-2 letters: principled, uncrippled.
	-3 letters: inclipped, principle, unclipped.
	-4 letters: crippled, inclined, incliner, induline, pinniped, principe, pulicide, ridicule, underlip, underpin, unpriced, unripped.
	-5 letters: cinerin, clipped, clipper, clupeid, cripple, cuppier, dineric, dippier, incline, include, inducer, indulin, inurned, lippier, nippier, nippled, nuclein, nuclide, penicil, pinnule, plunder, pulpier, punnier, purline, purpled, rippled, unlined, unpiled, uppiled, uridine.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-p-r-u"
	+4 letters: unprincipledness.
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