English → Latin
“unprincipled” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, minhonestusdishonorable; disgraceful; shamefulturpisugly, unsightly; foul, filthy; cacophonous, disagreeable; base, infamous, scandalous, dishonorable, shameful, disgracefucorrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rot
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
unprincipled
male moratus: malis or corruptis moribus. Sometimes inhonestus: turpis: turpis atque inhonestus. Unprincipled character, mores turpes or corrupti.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for unprincipled?
- The usual Latin words for “unprincipled” are malus, inhonestus, turpis; also corrumpō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.