A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice.
1 His will was not stronger than the general turpitude of his nature.
2 Superficial social reformers make poverty responsible for the total turpitude of men.
3 The cities were berated as hubs of moral turpitude , decadence and greed.
4 It's a piece of moral turpitude - an insult to common sense-andinfamously odd-
5 Argue with these gross self-satisfied fellows about the turpitude of the artisans!
6 Or, if you believe in Edward's moral turpitude , bog water in a colander.
7 One step downward in the path of moral turpitude ever leads to another.
8 The conventional turpitude of the offence wholly depended on the provocation.
9 The disappointment itself was great, but the turpitude that attended it much greater.
10 He had always held that tampering with the mails evinced the blackest turpitude .
11 And cut out the immoral gestures, no one's stopping this parade for turpitude .
12 How do you feel toward that spiritual fraud, turpitude and perfidy?
13 I will not soil my mind by letting it dwell upon such turpitude !
14 Oh, how can we reveal the whole duplicity and turpitude of Ananias Pullwool?
15 We print (with shame and the consciousness of turpitude ) the following letter:-
16 The scorn that intolerant youth has for moral turpitude rang in her clear voice.
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