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A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
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turpitude
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE moral ▪ This would lead to a graph of illegalities graded according to moral turpitude . ▪ This was long before Eastern Airlines fired him for moral turpitude and for making false claims about a medical background. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turpitude \Tur"pi*tude\, n. [L. turpitudo, from turpis foul, base.] Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society" [syn: depravity ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness. 2 An act evident of such a depravity.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Turpitude , meaning baseness or depravity, can refer specifically to: Moral turpitude , a legal concept in the United States Gnostical turpitude, the crime of the protagonist in Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading Turpitude Design, a computer game ...
Usage examples of turpitude.
I witnessed the depths of turpitude in those who seek power and understood that, once the principle of birth is undermined, the disinterest that alone can assure good government is fatally compromised.
I was close to the point of being able to confront Thurloe with his own turpitude, and justify his death.
I was so generous, and so helpful that it entirely covered my turpitude, so no one suspected the depths of a guilt which daily grew ever deeper and more monstrous.
A tri-coloured cockade placed on the forehead of the great King still bore witness of the imbecile turpitude of the Convention.
Even he took a dim view of me, not for my moral turpitude but for my clumsiness.
But though I was guilty of moral turpitude in varying degrees, I was not guilty of selling out my society.
Fejjuan, well aware of the inherent turpitude of this precious pair, wondered what might be the nature of their plotting.
Now indeed I feel how presumptuously merciless my bitter conviction of the turpitude of my own sin, has made me towards what I deemed like sins in others.
Or do you are fond better what belongs they moderns pleasure turpitude of old mans?
Incest, therefore, being PERNICIOUS in a superior degree, has also a superior turpitude and moral deformity annexed to it.
You must acknowledge that the moral turpitude results, in the same manner, from the contemplation of the whole, when presented to a being whose organs have such a particular structure and formation.
In the matter of whoring, though, which was known to plague even the most watchful of voyages, Hannah was to play a part so skilful that the surgeon-superintendent would state in his report that the prisoners had co-operated well and had shown little pernicious disruption and almost none of the moral turpitude so commonly experienced on a convict ship carrying female prisoners.
If you were thinking of moral turpitude, there was of course the question of Burgo Smyth.
In the brief time of his incumbency, I have no doubt that the shockingly public moral turpitude of the team has made a worse name for what I was once proud to claim as my Alma Mater than a lifetime of gridiron victories can possibly offset.
Monica and everyone else learned that the type of mange from which he suffered was called alopecia areata, and everywhere harmless, afflicted citizens wrote to the papers protesting that this ailment was not a mark of turpitude.