What's the difference between torpitude and turpitude?
Torpitude
Definition:
(n.) Torpidness.
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Turpitude
Definition:
(n.) Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the results support the view that the addictive "disease" model is a symbolic substitute for the moral turpitude model which it replaced.
(2) We are 52 episodes in now… "It's a curious phenomenon, I suppose, given the moral turpitude of that character," he says, and he laughs.
(3) But thousands of protesters have since staged rallies, arguing that army guidelines disqualify soldiers guilty of moral turpitude from being buried there, although Marcos was never found liable in a criminal case.
(4) A court found that his crimes entailed “moral turpitude”, which under Israeli law would preclude Olmert from running for public office for seven years after his release.
(5) When Gwyneth Paltrow was photographed last summer wearing double-strap Arizona Birkenstocks around London, while rehearsing for her performance in the play Proof, many tabloid magazines took the absence of a notable high heel as evidence of depression, turpitude and mortal lack of self-esteem.
(6) Inglis is a woman whose crime was a response to a long catalogue of terrible misfortunes, none of them in the smallest way due to her own choices, mistakes or turpitudes.
(7) We have to swallow the idea that he is not a liar, and then listen to this supposedly super-inept manager lecturing public servants on their moral turpitude and inefficiency.
(8) Luis Suarez is old news when it comes to manufactured outrage and out-of-proportion accusations of moral turpitude, and so it's Arjen Robben's turn at the moment.
(9) It is moral turpitude, depravity, to build more coal-fired power plants or open coal mines, knowing what we know now," he said.