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
• Miss Margland, who never felt so virtuous, and never so elated, as when witnessing the imperfections or improprieties of others, descanted largely against ingratitude; treating an unmeaning sally of passion as a serious mark of turpitude: but Eugenia, ashamed for Dr. Orkborne, to whom, as her preceptor, she felt a constant disposition to be partial, determined to endeavour to induce him to make some apology. Camilla
• For, as Aristotle says rightly, the moving of laughter is a fault in comedy, a kind of turpitude that depraves some part of a man's nature without a disease. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
• Well they've certainly changed enormously — I mean, people can live together now without it being called moral turpitude, which is a big step. ‘I’m Always In Love’
• Sometimes he haggles his way into fury, regarding a dollar too much as the peak of moral turpitude.
• It's unsurprising that in a course on deviance, we might talk about deviant stuff and I don't accept that at a university, we should have to trim our sails so that the local happy-clappies are satisfied with our absence of moral turpitude.
• The investigating committee is unaware of any conduct by either professor that could reasonably be construed as involving moral turpitude.
• Let every declamation turn upon the beauty of liberty and virtue, and the deformity, turpitude, and malignity of slavery and vice.
• He was considered unfit to hold office because of moral turpitude.
• For years, this was a handy picture of ‘official’ moral turpitude, as defined by the Code.