There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. From LearnThat.org. [Victor Hugo (1802-1885)]
Here there has just taken place a "raid" rivalling in turpitude and impudence the famous deed of Bennett Young. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of the Week] Reference
Well they've certainly changed enormously — I mean, people can live together now without it being called moral turpitude, which is a big step. From Wordnik.com. [‘I’m Always In Love’] Reference
Neither "turpitude" nor "quotidian" get a mention in my little English-French dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis Stine Gets a Job!] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
MARTIN: But they already have moral turpitude clauses. From Wordnik.com. [Is NFL Star Ben Roethlisberger's Suspension Too Harsh?] Reference
Its existence in a primary form implies moral turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
It exhibits the height of moral depravity and human turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Critics and avowed foes will be watching for the first sign of moral turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [Zuma Favored To Be South Africa's Next President] Reference
Or with the insolence of imagining that faulty usage betrays stupidity and turpitude?. From Wordnik.com. [Refudiate? Repudiate? Let's Call The Whole Thing Off] Reference
They could not just be fired, absent some crime of moral turpitude or something else. From Wordnik.com. [Op-Ed: Supreme Court Justices Should Be Elected] Reference
The noble regress not into turpitude when nightly shadows mute shards of infant light. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
I can read and write and do arithmetic, and I have not committed a crime of moral turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Jordan Gospel] Reference
It's a Cash-In world, the more embarrassing the turpitude the better for paddling up Amazon. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: The Poor Democrats] Reference
To others I will urge, Can any circumstance mark upon a people more turpitude and debasement?. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
The moral quality of the act is the same; the difference is wholly in the degree of turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
No human being could doubt for a moment, that such a transaction would be deep in moral turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
They're in there under waivers for non-high school graduates, moral turpitude, felony arrest, drug use. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2007] Reference
The glimpse she had accidentally given the old lady of Harriet's turpitude had startled her considerably. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
"It's a curious phenomenon, I suppose, given the moral turpitude of that character," he says, and he laughs. From Wordnik.com. [Mad Men: Jon Hamm on life as Don Draper and the blessings of late fame] Reference
By his questionable tactics Sir Charles had amassed great wealth, which covered all moral turpitude with silken mantle. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Be satisfied that I possess the power of exposing unheard-of turpitude and hypocrisy, and that I refrain from using it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
It is not easy to conceive of a greater degree of baseness, turpitude, and cowardice, than is manifested by this conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
No matter how much of a scoundrel a man may be, his self-analysis brings him far short of the correct degree of turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
The census of Peter having thus fairly inaugurated chattelhood, it immediately began to develop itself in all its turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
The man's assumed heartiness, his manner of joviality and good-fellowship, were only the mask of moral turpitude and blackest purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Switzerland, it was in the company of Auguste Papon, who, on the grounds of "moral turpitude," had already been given his marching-orders. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
This epoch, these later years, took unto themselves a sudden elevation in turpitude, whose origin alone it is my present purpose to assign. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
Of course, when hard-pressed, he was willing to recognize a difference in the motives which prompted individuals and in the degrees of their turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
In Skinner v. Oklahoma, the court unanimously struck down a law mandating sterilization for felons with two or more convictions "involving moral turpitude.". From Wordnik.com. [Is Roe Good Law?] Reference
To Greene's dismay, Herbert had acted as a spy for the fascists during the Spanish civil war, and all his life displayed a deep moral turpitude and opportunism. From Wordnik.com. [Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis] Reference
"O Geordie, jingling Geordie, it was grand to hear Baby Charles laying down the guilt of dissimulation, and Steenie lecturing on the turpitude of incontinence.". From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
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