How To Use Turpitude In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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Sometimes he haggles his way into fury, regarding a dollar too much as the peak of moral turpitude.
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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.
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The investigating committee is unaware of any conduct by either professor that could reasonably be construed as involving moral turpitude.
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Let every declamation turn upon the beauty of liberty and virtue, and the deformity, turpitude, and malignity of slavery and vice.
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He was considered unfit to hold office because of moral turpitude.
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For years, this was a handy picture of ‘official’ moral turpitude, as defined by the Code.
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And I do hope the Korean ministries of justice and national defense give him a chance to be forgiven of his moral turpitude.
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It make our growth accompany with justice and turpitude.
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The argument was that because of their ability to reach directly into Indian homes without any intermediary, the signals could pose a threat to national security as well as Indian culture causing moral and social turpitude.
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In fact, except Oliver Cromwell, King William, a few gentlemen who had the misfortune to be executed or exiled for high treason, and every dissenting minister that he has or can find occasion to notice, there are hardly any persons mentioned who are not stigmatized as knaves or fools, differing only in degrees of "turpitude" and "imbecility".
Famous Reviews
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The moral turpitude of youth is, and always has been, offensive to its elders.
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Yet despite these multiple mechanisms, the problem of official corruption remains serious, and leaders routinely cite moral turpitude as one of the party's main challenges.
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Going further into the letter to Sheen's attorneys, Bloom also explained the term "moral turpitude.
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Surely they would have to if there were no proof of moral turpitude ?
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In the 1940s, the Court ruled that the right to procreate is a fundamental right and declared unconstitutional an Oklahoma law that required the sterilization of those convicted three times of crimes involving moral turpitude.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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That was my crime of moral turpitude, which as crimes of moral turpitude go I don't think is too bad.
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The almost invariable habit of the English law was to award custody and control of an infant to its mother, except in the case of moral turpitude.
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His actions amounted to an act of moral turpitude.
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the various turpitudes of modern society
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This was long before Eastern Airlines fired him for moral turpitude and for making false claims about a medical background.
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She is also law abiding, yet is made to feel like a ‘professional beggar’ or someone ‘who has been convicted of a felony, or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.’
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Published and unpublished adulteries, seductions, rapes, elopements, embezzlements, homosexual entanglements, bigamies, financial turpitudes, are far more numerous than they should be in proportion to the clerical population.
The Necessity of Atheism
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Some insiders consider this to be moral turpitude on my part.
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Yet despite these multiple mechanisms, the problem of official corruption remains serious(Sentencedict), and leaders routinely cite moral turpitude as one of the party's main challenges.
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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.
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The errors that Dan made were not of moral turpitude but of human fallibility.
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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.
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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.
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[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
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Here there has just taken place a "raid" rivalling in turpitude and impudence the famous deed of Bennett Young.
Echoes of the Week
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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.
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It's that lax moral turpitude that's made Britain the great world power it is today.
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The frequency of envy makes it so familiar that it escapes our notice; nor do we often reflect upon its turpitude or malignity, till we happen to feel its influence.
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Only when such destruction threatens to derail the stock market and discredit the entire New Economy does the moral turpitude of top management become an issue.
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Neither "turpitude" nor "quotidian" get a mention in my little English-French dictionary.
Phyllis Stine Gets a Job!
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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.
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Yet that's exactly what the federal government is trying to do, citing his record and "turpitude" as the legal grounds on which he should be removed from the country.
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
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I would unhesitatingly recommend him for any position for which degeneracy, extreme turpitude, blatant immorality and total disregard of ordinary decent standards are the prime requisites.
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The circles of fashion afforded more than one instance of this obliging acquiescence in matrimonial turpitude.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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And if Claudius is simply a drunken thug who pulls a knife on Hamlet even when at prayer, you sacrifice the character's mix of moral turpitude and political skill.
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
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Their turpitude purveys to their malice; and they unplumb the dead for bullets to assassinate the living.
Selections from _Letter to Noble Lord_
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When we come to declaring opinions that are, however foolishly and unreasonably, associated with pain and even a kind of turpitude in the minds of those who strongly object to them, then some of our most powerful sympathies are naturally engaged.
On Compromise
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a piece of moral turpitude -- or at best a sign of lassitude, stupidity, and Toryism; because it means that one's mind is made up and that one has some dull theory which life and the thoughts of others may confirm if they will, but must not modify: from which deadly kind of incrustation may common-sense and human interest deliver us.
The Silent Isle
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What is moral turpitude, an ethical lapse, but a soilingof one's character?
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Individuals convicted on charges of corruption, moral turpitude or misuse of power would also be barred from serving as a member of the parliament or the four provincial assemblies.
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The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude.
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In his Lectures on Russian Literature Vladimir Nabokov maintains that "the third, and worst, degree of turpitude" in literary translation, after "obvious errors" and skipping over awkward passages, 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.
Tolstoy's Real Hero
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The journalist responsible for the article was put on trial in Argentina and accused of moral turpitude.
