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unprincipled
1. In other respects, he commonly returns home more conceited, more unprincipled, more dissipated, and more incapable of my serious application, either to study or to business, than he could well have become in so short a time had he lived at home
2. believes the Word; considers others; no fear; An unjust one: self-centered, not faithful; unprincipled; fainthearted; disbelieving
3. “the most blatantly unprincipled war opposition short of treason in living memory
4. And it was for moral reasons and sporting interest that she left her school and her home to compete with a man whose fame as a great, unprincipled eater had spread throughout the country
5. presentation as opposed to grey unprincipled data
6. With Kennedy's unmasking of the unprincipled activities of Kahn, that worthy changed his tactics, or at least dropped out of our sight
7. Unprincipled as the young man was, I could not help the feeling that in this case he was telling only the truth as he knew it
8. the unprincipled Olivares, and hisaccession initiated one of the
9. One would think that the handful of obscenely wealthy, unprincipled, corrupt criminals; would easily be overpowered by the millions of people who they stole from, and be punished so severely that such monstrous crimes of greed are never again repeated
10. When we see priesthoods making gain, or seeking for power, by deceiving the ignorant peasantry with pretended miracles,—when we see kings and statesmen entering upon unjust wars, and sacrificing thousands of lives to haughty temper, guilty ambition, or lust of power,—when we see professors of false religion and unprincipled rulers conspiring together to torture to death the martyrs of truth, as we read in the pages of history, till heaven itself calls for retribution,—does not conscience judge that if God shall 'take vengeance, on such men hereafter, He will, as Judge of all the earth, do right? But if God will do rightly in judging the great criminals of history, He will also surely do rightly in judging till men according to their works
11. the hand, even a glance from her, I would reproach myself for having snatched it by force, and would declare that she had resisted, so that I could never have gained anything but for my being so unprincipled
12. have been spared the misery of discovering, when too late, that I was united to a heartless, unprincipled wretch
13. I thought you unprincipled, but not so
14. Her indignation would have been still stronger than it was, had she not witnessed that embarrassment which seemed to speak a consciousness of his own misconduct, and prevented her from believing him so unprincipled as to have been sporting with the affections of her sister from the first, without any design that would bear investigation
15. "If I can make any sense of your nonsense, miss," I said, "it only goes to convince me that you are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying; or else that you are a wicked, unprincipled girl
16. The meaning is, I believe, that in the human soul there is a better and also a worse principle; and when the better has the worse under control, then a man is said to be master of himself; and this is a term of praise: but when, owing to evil education or association, the better principle, which is also the smaller, is overwhelmed by the greater mass of the worse --in this case he is blamed and is called the slave of self and unprincipled
17. "And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist, whose shades
18. The man was sly and unprincipled, willing to do anything for his master the king, just as Philemon had been when he served Godwyn as prior
19. He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work—one of the brightest intellects of the University, but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled
20. I suppose it makes sense – for one of the world’s leading software businesses to steal and exploit his technology was obviously far more serious than if some good-for-nothing, unprincipled shit of a student had done the same
21. At least this time he’d been able to convince her to stay behind herself … even if it had required him to take unprincipled advantage of the fact that all four of her children had joined their parents over the summer … and that she was three months pregnant with her fifth
22. I flattered her shamelessly, and as soon as I succeeded in getting a pressure of the hand, even a glance from her, I would reproach myself for having snatched it by force, and would declare that she had resisted, so that I could never have gained anything but for my being so unprincipled
23. Casaubon's curate to be; doubtless an excellent man who would go to heaven (for Celia wished not to be unprincipled), but the corners of his mouth were so unpleasant
24. And he is anything but an unprincipled man
25. There have always been unprincipled stock salesmen and fly by-night stock brokers, and—as a matter of course—we have advised our readers to confine their dealings, if possible, to members of the New York Stock Exchange
26. ‘If I can make any sense of your nonsense, Miss,’ I said, ‘it only goes to convince me that you are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying; or else that you are a wicked, unprincipled girl
27. What was their beauty to me in a few weeks? Giacinta was unprincipled and violent: I tired of her in three months
28. — ‘I am ruined for ever in their opinion—’ said I to myself—’I am shut out for ever from their society, they already think me an unprincipled fellow, this letter will only make them think me a blackguard one
29. He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work—one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled
30. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought
31. Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan coming that way, presume to draw confidentially close to one of the ladies, with what prodigious fury the Bashaw assails him, and chases him away! High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for, alas! all fish bed in common
32. She escaped her watery fate, and her rival, an unprincipled heiress, became a voluntary sacrifice through vanity and despair
33. Simeon Kartinkin was the atavistic production of serfdom, a stupefied, ignorant, unprincipled man, who had not even any religion
34. But after some time had elapsed and he had done nothing and had nothing to show, and when in accordance with the law of the struggle for existence others, like himself, who had learnt to write and understand documents, stately and unprincipled officials, had displaced him, he turned out to be not only far from clever but very limited and badly educated
35. It would serve only to provide the vicious and unprincipled with an opportunity to oppress the innocent
36. All those in authority affirm that their office is required in order that the unprincipled may be hindered from oppressing the innocent, implying thereby that they themselves, being virtuous, are protecting other virtuous men from the malice of the evil-doer
37. Let it be remembered that justice was to be obtained from Great Britain; from that power which is now represented and held up to our indignation as "proud, unprincipled, imperious, and tyrannical;" and which certainly was at least as much so then; for then she had on her side all Europe engaged in combination against France, and France was alone as England is now
38. Dissatisfactions were not only excited; but many unprincipled persons found means to evade the law and make exportations contrary to its provisions
39. People as depraved as Cissy Eccleston and Claude Morland, so sordidly unprincipled as Lady Eccleston, so uselessly selfish as Arthur, so nearly degenerate, physically and mentally, as Sainty, the hero, is intentionally represented to be, should, if they are to be used in fiction at all, be subjected to the counterbalancing influence of decent people; but in “Belchamber” there is no such relief
40. Whatever may be the information received, I shall endeavor to adhere to what I deem the real interests of my country, and, so far as I am able, to maintain its rights against the unprincipled aggressions of every foreign nation
41. That gentleman, a representative of the American people, has proposed this direct breach of public faith, and as a pretext to the unprincipled act, has had the temerity to declare "that the President had no authority to issue his proclamation; that the assurances of France to our Government were deceptive; that the Berlin and Milan decrees were not revoked; and that the non-intercourse act is not in force;" and thus has arraigned the President for issuing his proclamation
42. On examining that subject, I find that England, by her Orders in Council of May, eighteen hundred and six, by proclamation had placed France in a state of blockade; that France in eighteen hundred and seven had placed the British isles in a like manner in a state of blockade; that England, by her Orders in Council of the eleventh of November, eighteen hundred and seven, laid a toll on neutral vessels, and made them pass through her ports; France, by her decree of the seventeenth of December, eighteen hundred and seven, declared the vessels submitting to that order denationalized, and lawful prize; so that by their new principle of blockade, and their unprincipled retaliations, the commerce of the United States was cut up by the roots
43. Past experience, however, hath evidently shown that similar legislative indulgences have enured almost exclusively to the advantage of the unprincipled speculator, and those who avail themselves of the ignorance and subsist upon the misfortunes of others
44. But what has Revolutionary Spain done? What offence has she committed against France? That she is not only helpless, destitute of resources, unable to return a blow, but, above all, is coveted by France, are considerations which cannot justify, on the part of France, conduct towards her more infamous than that of the English at Copenhagen—conduct cowardly as it is unprincipled
45. If they have, it has been considered as an act of unprincipled violence, and in the instance of Patkul has merited and received the denomination of murder
