Turpitude

Definition: Turpitude

Turpitude

Noun

1. A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice: "the various turpitudes of modern society".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "turpitude" was first used: 1490. (references)

Etymology: Turpitude \Tur"pi*tude\, noun. [Latin expression turpitudo, from turpis foul, base.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Turpitude

Disrepute

Dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness; turpitude; (improbity); infamy.

Improbity

Shabbiness; Adjective: villainy, villany; baseness; Adjective: abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling.

Crosswords: Turpitude

French (turpitude).

Books

• Gross moral turpitude : the Orr case reconsidered (reference)

• Seduction and consent : a case of gross moral turpitude (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Human Rights

Laos

Militia usually concern themselves more with petty crime and instances of moral turpitude than with political activism, although some rural militia may be used for security against insurgents. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "turpitude": moral turpitude. Additional references.

Albanian

turp (attaint, bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, taint), poshtërsi (dirtiness, enormity, infamy, meanness, naughtiness, perfidy, vileness, villainy, wickedness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فساد خلقي, ‏عمل شائن (enormity, infamy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

низост (abjection, baseness, dirtiness, infamy, iniquity, manginess, meanness, squalor, villainy, yellowness), подлост (abjection, bad faith, baseness, meanness, treachery, villainy). (various references)

Czech

podlost (foul trick, meanness), hanebnost (infamy, vileness, villainy). (various references)

Farsi 

فساد (Corruption, Decadence, Decay, Degeneration, Depravity, Immorality, Pus, Putrefaction, Spoil, Vice), پستی (Bastardization, Blackguardism, Mail, Misery, Postal, Recess, Ribaldry, Villainy, Vulgarity), دناءت ذاتی , دلواپسی (Worry). (various references)

French

turpitude. (various references)

German

Verworfenheit (abjectness, crookedness, depravation, depravity), Schändlichkeit (disgracefulness, infamy, opprobriousness, shamefulness, vileness). (various references)

Greek 

κακοήθεια (dishonesty, malignity, wickedness), φαυλότησ (nefariousness, sinisterness, unrighteousness, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wantonness, wickedness), φαυλότητα (depravity, nefariousness, sinisterness, unrighteousness, venality, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wantonness, wickedness), αισχρότησ (ignominiousness, obsceneness, obscenity, outrageousness, uncleanness), αισχρότητα (depravity, ignominiousness, indecency, obsceneness, obscenity, outrageousness, uncleanness), διαφθορά (corruption, coruptness, depravation, depravity, venality). (various references)

Hebrew 

שפלות (baseness, decadence, humiliation, meanness, sordidness), שחיתות (corruption, decadence, degeneracy, demoralization, depravity, immorality, perversion, perversity). (various references)

Hungarian

aljasság (baseness, blackguardism, foul deed, infamy, meanness, nastiness, snottiness, squalor, unprincipledness). (various references)

Indonesian

kebejatan (damage, depravity). (various references)

Italian

turpitudine. (various references)

Manx

dwoaieaght. (various references)

Pig Latin

urpitudetay

Portuguese

torpeza, maldade (badness, enormity, gall bladder, maleficence, malice, malignancy, naughtiness, perversity, slyness, unrighteousness, venom, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing), indignidade (degradation, indignity), depravação (abuse, depravation, depravity, perversion, vice), baixeza (baseness, dirtiness, foulness, humiliation, lowness, meanness, servility). (various references)

Romanian

turpitudine. (various references)

Russian 

низость (abjection, abjectness, baseness, filth, lowness, meanness, rascality, rottenness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokvarenost (badness, baseness, rottenness, spoilage, viciousness), niskost (baseness, meanness). (various references)

Spanish

vileza (base act, disreputableness, lousiness, meanness, snottiness, sordidness, vileness), depravación (depravation, depravity). (various references)

Swedish

nedrighet (baseness, beastliness, dirtiness). (various references)

Turkish

alçaklık (baseness, contemptibility, cowardice, dastardliness, enormity, ignominy, lowness, meanness, recreancy), ahlaksızlık (corruption, debauch, debauchery, depravation, depravity, dissoluteness, immorality, indecency, moral turpitude, rascality, uncleanliness, vice, viciousness, wantonness). (various references)

Ukrainian

ницість (villainy), порочність (depravity, improbity, naughtiness, viciousness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính xấu xa (ignominy, unholiness), tính đê tiện việc l� m xấu xa, việc l� m đê tiện. (various references)

dedecoris, dedecus, turpitudinem, turpitudo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "turpitude": turpitudes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Turpitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: terpitude, tupitude, turpitudo, turplitude, turptude. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: puttied, puttier.

-3 letters: pitted, putrid, putted, putter, redipt, rutted, trepid.

-4 letters: dript, drupe, duper, erupt, perdu, petit, petti, pride, pried, prude, putti, redip, riped, tepid, tired, titer, titre, tried, tripe, trite, trued, uteri, utter.

-5 letters: diet, dipt, dire, dirt, dite, drip, duet, duit, dupe, dure, edit, etui, ired, peri, pert, pied, pier, pure, puri.

+1 letter: turpitudes.

+4 letters: uninterrupted.