turpitude

How To Use turpitude In A Sentence

• Prosecutors say a zoophilic British tourist broke that law when he wrote on a visa waiver application that he had never been convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude and wasn't entering the U.S. to engage in criminal or immoral activities. Bestiality Tourist Stephen Clarke Charged With Lying On Visa After Sex With Dogs
• He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
• The power to apportion responsibility under the Law Reform Act 1945 afforded a far more appropriate tool for doing justice than the blunt instrument of turpitude.
• The errors that Dan made were not of moral turpitude but of human fallibility.
• The third, and worst, degree of turpitude is reached when a masterpiece is planished and patted into such a shape, vilely beautified in such a fashion as to conform to the notions and prejudices of a given public. Check out ...
• As I start to wonder about the legitimacy of the test, Alain becomes altogether more aggressive, demanding what I plan to do about the advanced state of misery and moral turpitude in which I have found myself.
• [1894] Padua in Italy they have a stone called the stone of turpitude, near the senate-house, where spendthrifts, and such as disclaim non-payment of debts, do sit with their hinder parts bare, that by that note of disgrace others may be terrified from all such vain expense, or borrowing more than they can tell how to pay. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Here there has just taken place a "raid" rivalling in turpitude and impudence the famous deed of Bennett Young. Echoes of the Week
• While depression can inspire some people to greatness, the vast majority are knocked into useless turpitude, so it's no wonder that the left has been so bloody useless this year.
• It's that lax moral turpitude that's made Britain the great world power it is today.