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  • noun Plural form of turpitude.

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Examples

  • The bums who ran the US banking sector into a ditch have to account for their turpitudes.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • The bums who ran the US banking sector into a ditch have to account for their turpitudes.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • It would be too boring to tick off the turpitudes of all those stuffy-looking heads of state.

    Sarkozy in Love Nidra Poller 2008

  • On a donc mis sur le dos du président Ravalomanana, à qui on ne pardonne pas non plus l'utilisation de la langue maternelle dans l'enseignement primaire, ce qui est une querelle franco-française; Ce faisant, on se défausse de ses turpitudes sur quelqu'un qui, pour le moment, n'a pas rejoint la “France-Afrique”.

    French Ambassador Expelled from Madagascar Because he has Bad Luck? 2008

  • It would be too boring to tick off the turpitudes of all those stuffy-looking heads of state.

    Sarkozy in Love 2008

  • Again we must remember that grossness and indecency, in fact les turpitudes, are matters of time and place; what is offensive in England is not so in Egypt; what scandalises us now would have been a tame joke tempore Elisœ.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • People who get their moral turpitudes in a bunch over "untrue" memoirs are living in some alternate fairy tale land where there is only one truth and one truth only.

    Heather McElhatton: Lie To Me 2008

  • Therapeutic cloning is a step in the wrong direction, a depraved practice reflecting nothing more than the turpitudes of modern scientific egos in their race to the bottom of the ethics ladder. posted by sydney on

    Medpundit 2006

  • There are instances of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Therapeutic cloning is a step in the wrong direction, a depraved practice reflecting nothing more than the turpitudes of modern scientific egos in their race to the bottom of the ethics ladder. posted by sydney on

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

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