Curtis was Sidney Falco, an unprincipled press agent in thrall to (and fear of) the man who could make him king of the jungle, and willing to sell his pride and soul for the title.
Related: Nigerian laureate Wole Soyinka laments 'vicious, unprincipled' election He complained of irregularities, however, including alleged APC voters who were underage or brought in from neighbouring Chad and Niger.
Anwar sued the New Straits Times Press, claiming that a 2002 article examining his ties to a US thinktank made him seem like an "American agent" who was unprincipled and disloyal to Malaysia.
Even then, it was a problem, because the presidents, senators and chancellors were also unprincipled in their behaviour.
Warsi may be deeply disliked by some senior Tories who see her as vain, unprincipled, self-centred and motivated by animus at her demotion from the party chairmanship in 2012.
When I found a dictionary that had the word "eft" in it I discovered that Charles Kingsley, the professor of modern history from the University of Cambridge, was an unprincipled liar.
The problem is that Brussels has no legal or political toolkit for such interventions; the instruments and strategies it has available can seem unprincipled and opportunistic.
Likewise, the anonymous campaigner behind the Tactical Voter Twitter campaign, said: "This is not unprincipled tactical voting but about looking at the long-term future of Scotland.
Disraeli, Gladstone's greatest rival, recoiled from his rhetoric over Bulgaria, calling him an "unprincipled maniac" and "a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity".
He would never do so; because though most leaders were unprincipled weathercocks, he was one of the few unbending signposts, pointing (as Margaret Thatcher had also, but wrongly, pointed) to the promised land.The route he preached was "pure" socialism.
She is a rude, unprincipled lightweight, squeal her critics in the ministry.
