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countable and uncountable, plural turpitudes
Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness. quotations examples
As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.
1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
An act evident of such depravity. examples