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Unprincipled vs Malignant - What's the difference?

unprincipled | malignant | Related terms |

Unprincipled is a related term of malignant.


As adjectives the difference between unprincipled and malignant

is that unprincipled is lacking moral values while malignant is harmful, malevolent, injurious.

As a noun malignant is

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unprincipled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • lacking moral values

    • Synonyms

    *licentious, immoral

    Related terms

    *principled *principle

    References

    *Oxford English Dictionary

    malignant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
  • (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
    • malignant diphtheria
    a malignant tumor

    Antonyms

    * (medicine) benign

    Related terms

    * nonmalignant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1823 , The Retrospective Review (volume 7, page 11)
    • As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants
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