5 August 2016
turpitude
[tur-pi-tood, -tyood]
noun
1. vile, shameful, or base character; depravity.
2. a vile or depraved act.
Origin of turpitude
Latin
1480-1490; < Latin turpitūdō, equivalent to turpi (s) base, vile + -tūdō -tude
Synonyms
1. wickedness, vice, vileness, wrongdoing.
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Examples from the Web for turpitude
Historical Examples
There can be no turpitude under the sun in which the wretch doesnt wallow.
Ainslee’s magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905
Various
The moral quality of the act is the same; the difference is wholly in the degree of turpitude.
Usury
Calvin Elliott
With him Nero could always throw off the mask, and display the depths of his own turpitude.
Darkness and Dawn
Frederic W. Farrar
I know the turpitude of these crows, and their lack of respect for merit and birth.
The Mesmerist’s Victim
Alexandre Dumas
Be comforted: your crime, morally or religiously considered, has no very deep dye of turpitude.
Life of Johnson
James Boswell
The whole earth seemed to him to be made of glass to reveal his turpitude.
Darkness and Dawn
Frederic W. Farrar
Mrs. Fox-Moore spoke as though detecting an additional proof of turpitude.
The Convert
Elizabeth Robins
From the turpitude of her daughter’s conduct, she proceeded to its consequences.
Self-control
Mary Brunton
For theirs are not spectacles of turpitude, as that Father justly calls those of his Time.
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage
Jeremy Collier
There was an unlimited future for misery, ignorance, turpitude.
Recollections and Impressions
Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Anagram
tutu pride
I rutted up
Today’s quote
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
– Mahatma Gandhi
On this day
5 August 910 – Battle of Tettenhall, in which King Edward and Earl Aethelred defeat the last of the Viking armies to raid England.
5 August 1305 – Scottish revolutionary, William Wallace, captured by English forces near Glasgow. He was transported to London for trial and execution.
5 August 1861 – the United States Army abolishes flogging and increases enlistment terms from 3 months to 2 years.
5 August 1884 – construction of the Statue of Liberty commences in New York City with the laying of the cornerstone.
5 August 1930 – birth of Neil Armstrong, astronaut, first man on the moon. Died 25 August 2012.
5 August 1944 – The Cowra Breakout – The largest prisoner-of-war escape in World War 2, when 1104 Japanese prisoners attempted to breakout of the Australian internment camp at Cowra, New South Wales. Four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese prisoners were killed during the manhunt. The remaining prisoners were captured and returned to prison.
5 August 1957 – the ‘Andy Capp’ comic strip makes its debut.
5 August 1962 – Marilyn Monroe found dead. She was 36 years old. It is believed she deliberately over-dosed on drugs, but questions remain around whether she administered it voluntarily or someone murdered her. Died 1 June 1926.
5 August 1966 – Datebook magazine quotes John Lennon controversially declaring that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus. Lennon had made the comment on 4 March 1966 in England, where no-one paid attention to it. When Datebook published it in August in the United States it caused an uproar. The full quote was ‘Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I’ll be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me‘.