Usually means: Depravity or wickedness in character.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. turpitude: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. turpitude: Merriam-Webster
  3. turpitude: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. turpitude: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. turpitude: Collins English Dictionary
  6. turpitude: Vocabulary.com
  7. Turpitude, turpitude: Wordnik
  8. turpitude: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. turpitude: Wiktionary
  10. turpitude: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. turpitude: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. turpitude: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. turpitude: Dictionary.com
  14. turpitude: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Turpitude: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Turpitude: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. turpitude: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. turpitude: Rhymezone
  19. Turpitude: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. turpitude: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. turpitude: FreeDictionary.org
  22. turpitude: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. turpitude: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. turpitude: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. turpitude: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. turpitude: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turpitude: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Turpitude: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
noun:  An act evident of such depravity.

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