| 单词 | unprincipled |
| 释义 | unprincipled (once / 3238 pages) adj An unprincipled person follows no moral code, has no integrity, and should not be trusted, like the guy who offers to help an old lady across the street but steals her purse instead. No, unprincipled isn't a word we use to describe a school that's missing its principal — we're talking about the -ple word here. If you don't have principles, which is what unprincipled really means, then you don't have scruples or morals. You're likely to do just about anything bad, like break rules, take advantage of people, tell lots of lies, and extort people's lunch money. WORD FAMILYprincipled: unprincipled USAGE EXAMPLESIn other words, perhaps the incoming president of the United States is a great big liar, a conscienceless opportunist and an unprincipled, amoral, convictionless fraud. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) The danger to the new country, Hamilton argued, wasn’t ideological disputes, but the possibility that an unprincipled man would exploit public passions. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) A kakistocracy is a government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. Salon(Dec 17, 2016) 1adj lacking principles or moral scruples "freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny"- A.E.Stevenson Syn|Ant unscrupulous without scruples or principles principled based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality high-principledhaving high principles scrupuloushaving scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled 2adj having little or no integrity Syn dishonorable, dishonourable lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor |
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