Marriage indeed! Who on earth that has money, or credit, or respect in the world to lose, would marry him?'
'It is no use your scolding me, papa. I have done the best I could for him and you.'
'And Madeline is nearly as bad,' said the prebendary, who was in truth, very, very angry. 'Oh, I suppose we are all bad,' replied Charlotte. The old man emitted a huge leonine sigh. If they were all bad, who had made them so? If they were unprincipled, selfish, and disreputable, who was to be blamed for the education which had had so injurious an effect. 'I know you'll ruin me among you,' said he.英文原著 · 《Barchester Towers》
"I knew him well. I don't think he was an unprincipled man, but he was certainly imprudent, and was led into acts that were reprehensible. Did he lose all your money for you?"英文原著 · 《Cast Upon the Breakers》
He had never before found himself unable to meet his bills. nor would he have been so placed now but for Hubbard's rascality. A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand. Suppose he should be arrested and the story get into the papers? How his stepmother would exult in the record of his disgrace! He could anticipate what she would say. Peter, too, would rejoice, and between them both his father would be persuaded that he was thoroughly unprincipled. "What have you got in your valise?" asked the clerk.英文原著 · 《Driven From Home》
Manders. Then what you are speaking of are those unprincipled conditions known as irregular unions!英文原著 · 《Ghosts》
Oswald. I have never noticed anything particularly unprincipled about these people's lives.英文原著 · 《Ghosts》
"Oh, Hans!" she mimicked, pursing her lips, and trying to look desperately wicked and unprincipled.英文原著 · 《Hans Brinker》