Examples
“He attributed not to moral turpitude his errours nor his crimes, but to the prevalence of ill example, and to an unjustifiable and dangerous levity, which irresistibly led him to treat with mockery and trifling the most serious subjects.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moral turpitude’.
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JURI - courtroom speak
Legal glossary with special focus on courtroom vocabulary
accused, acquittal, ADA, adjournment, adjudication, affidavit, affirmed, aggravated range, aggravating factors, allegation, alleged, answer and 794 more...
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collection o' collocations
Words that are generally seen in each other's company; words that, when mentioned, bring their partners to mind.
innocent bystander, categorically deny, kung-fu grip, picky eater, natural habitat, deep sleep, horse-drawn carriage, ample bosom, perp walk, tea break, wreak havoc, strictly forbidden and 63 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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Euphemisms
Mostly awful and political.
information campaign, enemy combatant, person of interest, collateral damage, friendly fire, detention centre, children overboard, asylum seeker, health care, national interest, economic management, redeployment and 114 more...
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Delirium's Words
milquetoast, folderol, discombobulate, persnickety, piffle, curmudgeon, suckitude, smithereens, cantankerous, shenanigans, murder, morningstar and 59 more...
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nheidebrecht's Words
aggrandizement, disenfranchise, eponymous, somnambulist, castigate, discombulate, elephantiasis, gallinipper, octogenarian, primogeniture, nolo contendre, intrafamilial and 1 more...
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Fragments for thought.
A list that contains words which are fragments of ideas I’m working on, and can be used as muse directors.
détente, breathless, pressure, tension, moral turpitude, historical materi..., delta dart, apricity, pathogenicity
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yarb A phrase now almost endemic to the letters page of the Daily Telegraph. The opposite of moral rectitude. Oct 15, 2007