How to Use turpitude in a Sentence

turpitude

noun

• Many heirs to the throne have incurred opprobrium on the ground of moral turpitude.
  — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Before the bill was signed, only five felonies were considered not to be crimes of moral turpitude.
  — Connor Sheets, AL.com, 25 May 2017
• In the 1980s, a divestment movement took hold; any engagement with the regime came to be seen as a marker of moral turpitude.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
• One could be dismissed from Cornell for moral turpitude.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2021
• Since late-stage syphilis attacked the nose, those so afflicted were seen as bearing proof of moral turpitude.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• Anyone convicted of a felony or a crime of moral turpitude will not be considered.
  — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• The fantasy role-playing game was, in the ’80s, considered by some as a ploy conceived by Satan to arouse moral turpitude.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 8 Apr. 2018
• Moral turpitude is a term applied generally to felonies like murder, child abuse, fraud and theft.
  — Lorraine Longhi, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2020
• The bar accused Joe Dunn of three counts of moral turpitude stemming from his four-year tenure at the agency, which concluded with his 2014 firing.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• Whether because of mental illness or moral turpitude, McCormick did bad things, it is explained.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Utah ended up dropping its desire to add a moral turpitude clause in Majerus’s contract, Greenberg said.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
• The issue concerns a provision in the Alabama Constitution that says felons who commit crimes of moral turpitude lose their right to vote.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 Nov. 2019
• That’s the outgrowth of a mind-set that views our most vulnerable populations as malingerers, rip-off artists or guilty of moral turpitude.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• More than two dozen additional crimes are considered crimes of moral turpitude, but do not require a pardon to restore voting rights.
  — Connor Sheets | [e-mail], al, 30 Oct. 2020
• Adding a layer of scandal to the story, he was accused of moral turpitude, by which Hamas meant homosexuality.
  — Diaa Hadid and Majd Al Waheidi, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2016
• Those convicted of crimes of moral turpitude in Alabama automatically lose the right to vote.
  — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• No one questioned Rasmussen’s moral turpitude in February 2020.
  — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2021
• Norris was charged with four instances of corruption in office and eleven instances of commission of crimes involving moral turpitude.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 14 Jan. 2022
• The Definition of Moral Turpitude Act identifies first- and second-degree burglary as crimes of moral turpitude, but not third-degree burglary.
  — Connor Sheets, AL.com, 29 June 2017
• Even today, nearly all states have laws that permit the dismissal of a teacher for immorality, immoral character or moral turpitude.
  — Kyle Greenwalt, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2019
• Gillen and Hoult bring the appropriate blend of chilly determination to their assassin roles, their unflinching visages showing the depth of their moral turpitude.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• Both deal in the heartfelt popular grotesque; turpitude spawns moral and physical gargoyles, whom the virtuous (preferably not simpering but impish, like Matilda) must learn to trounce.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
• If the sentence is longer than three months, then prosecutors can insist on the inclusion of moral turpitude, which would bar the 72-year-old Netanyahu from politics for seven years according to Israeli law.
  — Hadas Gold, Andrew Carey and Amir Tal, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
• Today, paralyzing lassitude is often seen as a symptom of disease rather than of turpitude.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
• The underlying legal issue is whether Deri’s tax fraud conviction constitutes a crime of moral turpitude.
  — Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• What is lost when Monroe’s body is made into a screen onto which ideas about Hollywood’s moral turpitude can be continuously projected?
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2022
• There was no suggestion that academic prowess, community involvement or questions of moral turpitude should be part of the equation.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2021
• City law requires that a person must first be convicted of a crime of moral turpitude before officials can take away a public employee’s pension, and Nuru’s court case has only barely begun.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• The district attorney’s report said the range of crimes include those of moral turpitude and a federal grand jury is currently considering charging officers.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2023
• By 1900, nativism had crept into the temperance discourse, as immigrants from Ireland and Italy were associated with drunkenness and moral turpitude.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 31 Jul 2024