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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TURP'ITUDE, n. [L. turpitudo, from turpis, foul, base.]
1. Inherent baseness or vileness of principle in the human heart; extreme depravity.
2. Baseness or vileness of words or actions; shameful wickedness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society" [syn: depravity, turpitude]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle French, from Latin turpitudo, from turpis vile, base Date: 15th century inherent baseness ; depravity <moral turpitude>; also a base act

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. formal baseness, depravity, wickedness. Etymology: F turpitude or L turpitudo f. turpis disgraceful, base

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Turpitude Tur"pi*tude, n. [L. turpitudo, from turpis foul, base.] Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Turpitude is very immoral behaviour. (FORMAL) N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Baseness, depravity, wickedness, vileness.

Moby Thesaurus

abandon, abandonment, abjection, baseness, chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravation, depravedness, depravity, dissoluteness, knavery, knavishness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, profligacy, rascality, rascalry, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, rottenness, scampishness, scoundrelism, vileness, villainousness, villainy