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turpitude noun [ ˈtəːpɪtjuːd ]

• depraved or wicked behaviour or character.
• "acts of moral turpitude"
Similar: wickedness, immorality, depravity, corruption, corruptness, vice, degeneracy, evil, baseness, iniquity, sinfulness, vileness, nefariousness, flagitiousness,
Opposite: virtue, honour,
Origin: late 15th century: from French, or from Latin turpitudo, from turpis ‘disgraceful, base’.


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