turpitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   depravity or moral wickedness

   He was barred from office for crimes of moral turpitude.

From Middle French turpitude, from Latin turpitudo ('baseness, disgrace'), from turpis ('base, vile, shameful, ugly'), of uncertain further origin.

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