Definitionn. a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
Last update: June 16, 2015
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Habitual intoxication, wilful desertion for three years, cruel treatment, and conviction for an offence the commission of which involved moral turpitude and for which the offender has been sentenced to imprisonment for at least two years, are recognized as causes for divorce. [noun]
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From the suffrage and the holding of office are excluded idiots and insane persons and all those who have been convicted of treason, embezzlement, malfeasance in office, bribery or larceny, or any crime involving moral turpitude and punishable under the laws of the state by imprisonment in the penitentiary - this last disqualification, however, is removable by a pardon for the offence. [noun]
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Or do you are fond better what belongs they moderns pleasure turpitude of old mans. [noun]
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His will was not stronger than the general turpitude of his nature. [Please select]
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I argued in vain, and only made my case worse by citing as an instance of German official turpitude the staff surgeon's neglect of me. [Please select]
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If she had meant me to know the character of Gedge's turpitude, she would have told me of her own accord. [Please select]
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I again expressed my gratification at learning his honourable intentions towards Phyllis, and I commended his discovery of Gedge's fundamental turpitude. [Please select]
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Bixbee, wondering not more at the deacon's turpitude than at the lapse in David's acuteness, of which she had an immense opinion, but commenting only on the former. [Please select]
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Georges Coutlass was no drawing-room darling, or worthy citizen of any land, but he had courage of a kind, and a sort of splendid fire that made men forget his turpitude. [Please select]
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