Crossword-Solution: TURPITUDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Turpitude | n. | Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “TURPITUDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Inherent villainy | 1 answer |
| Trade union offensive limiting mine corruption | 1 answer |
| Wickedness. | 70 answers |
| baseness | 74 answers |
| depravity | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TURPITUDE (5)
She wondered at herself—flushing at her own turpitude; for upon Barsoom it is a shameful thing for a woman to listen to those two words from another than her husband or her betrothed.
Then, with a little cold sigh, he seemed to signify that he regretfully surrendered the late marquis to the penalty of his turpitude.
Base marks a high degree of moral turpitude; vile and mean denote, in different degrees, the want of what is valuable or worthy of esteem.
Just let us consider the tendency of John Law's 'system.' However general may be the fury of gambling, _EVERYBODY_ does not gamble; certain professions impose a certain restraint, and their members would blush to resort to games the turpitude of which would subject them to unanimous condemnation.
Enraged by his own wrongs, and by the dishonor of his blood, he cast away in his turn the sentiments of nature, and revealed to Belisarius the turpitude of a woman who had violated all the duties of a mother and a wife.
Quotes with TURPITUDE (2)
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glow…
If priests — of all clans — were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the religionists. But these "men of God" are victims of the natural course of life, "even as you and I." They enjoy no exemptions. They suffer the same ills; they feel the same sensations; they are subject to the same passions of the body, the same frailties of the mind, are victims of circumstances and misfortune, and they meet inevitable death just as every …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–2003).