unprincipled
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The careers of men like Charles Ponzi, Jesse Livermore, and Ivan Boesky remind us that one unprincipled gambler can still cause immense damage to respectable shareholders, the market itself, and even the nation.
From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026
First, there’s the popular 2007 soap opera “Paraíso Tropical,” in which he played an unprincipled businessman.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
During the 1990s he privately criticized the “barbarians” brought in by a new editor, Tina Brown, but admitted to Garrison Keillor his “own unprincipled connivance with the Tina regime.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
He had also proved himself many times over to be untrustworthy and unprincipled.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2023
He considered military men unprincipled loafers, ambitious plotters, experts in facing down civilians in order to prosper during times of disorder.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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