turpitude🔊

Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.

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As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

An act evident of such depravity.

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And still I am condemned to see his turpitudes; and the seeing is my most grievous punishment.

Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Abbot of Puthuum

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