Unprincipled in example sentence

She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.

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In the Roman province of Syria in the 2nd century CE, the satirist Lucian described the Cynics of his own time as unprincipled, materialistic, self-promoting hypocrites, who only preached what Diogenes had once actually practiced.

The earnestly diligent cast members work at creating their roles, with Brass being especially effective as an unprincipled policeman.

Others have protested that the film shows Indians as conniving, unprincipled, and ruthless, and that the only compassionate people in the film are a pair of white tourists who give the protagonist some money.

Whatever the outcome, whoever wins, the key decisions that must be taken appear likely to be either postponed once again or -- worse yet -- taken hastily by inexperienced politicians huddled in insecure and unprincipled coalitions, governments that our votes can neither influence nor control.

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