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turpitude

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Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.

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Iran spent its way out of medieval turpitude and was hailed as the new Japan.

But, in fact, this is not necessary to refute the claim that business schools are responsible for moral turpitude at the top of corporate America.

I nominate Starbucks.Unlike me, a large number of people seem to think that earmarks are evil, and evidence of moral turpitude on the part of the politician involved.

If the same happened after the new Knesset is sworn in, the turpitude would require him to resign from the new Knesset and wait till the next elections four or more years away.

And FIFA's moral turpitude is hardly unique.

Alternatively, they may try for a plea-bargain with the prosecution that would avoid turpitude altogether.

If he were convicted before the election, guilty of moral turpitude, but not sentenced to prison, the turpitude would expire with the present Knesset.

His team is hoping for a speedy trial and a verdict without a jail term, so that even if turpitude is declared, it will quickly lapse.

Even an admiral was hung, and English officers were appalled that their vessels had become such "engines of turpitude".

The Tories are determined to blend the moral turpitude of state profligacy with that of individual sloth and dependency, dousing Labour in the resultant concoction.Ed Miliband's response reveals both the strengths and the weaknesses of the Labour Party under his leadership.

As Mr Appiah observes, our children's children will almost certainly find us in the same sad circumstances as our forebears: hip deep in turpitude.

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