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Feeling creative? Care to write a sentence using the word turpitude?
To help you understand the question, please note that I don't need the definition of the word; I know what it means. What I'm hoping for is to see it used in a sentence. And hey, with luck, several sentences!
From Dictionary.com -- Turpitude: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/turpitude
The subject is domestic violence and men who abuse women. It is within this context you must write the sentence.
To help put you in the right mental place:
“The humiliation and torture of those they’re supposed to love and protect is their vile attempt to prove their superiority, to be in control. Instead, it’s sick evidence of their own pathetic impotency and their pitiful effort to convince themselves they’re men!” Liz was right, of course, but she was preaching to the choir. Someone like Lucas didn’t deserve to be called a man. Maggie could feel sympathy for a rabid dog, but she had none for that wretched excuse for a human being.
Now Mags, you know no other Maggie can even approach your 6'2" blonde self.
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The responses from Bruckcie and pjm illustrate the reason I posted this. They show the most common way the word is used.
I've decided I don't like that word. It lacks muscle. Has no punch. It's lukewarm. It's a dead word. I'll save it for hysterical legal clauses that allow us to discriminate against young teachers who paid their way through college as exotic dancers.
I, too, had trouble using it effectively in a sentence within the context I stated. By definition, turpitude is synonymous with depravity, yet unless you still cling with self-righteous vigor to your Puritan roots, the word simply carries no clout.
frontstca, you got that right!
reader, I really liked the way you picked up on my paragraph!
You, too, Kabum!
Hey sinic! I couldn't agree more.
9 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's more than a criminal act. It's turpitude in the purest sense and courts aren't set up to deal with that evil. Sometimes a wrong deserves a swift action, a harsh action. Sometimes the only court high enough to deal with an asshole is a private court, the victim is the jury and the judge is a smoking gun.
- 6 years ago
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Feeling creative? Care to write a sentence using the word turpitude?
To help you understand the question, please note that I don't need the definition of the word; I know what it means. What I'm hoping for is to see it used in a sentence. And hey, with luck, several sentences!
From Dictionary.com -- Turpitude: ...
Source(s): feeling creative care write sentence word turpitude: https://bitly.im/FG60O - sinicLv 71 decade ago
Someone like Lucas should be sent to a place where turpitude is the order of the day, so he may learn the many connotations of the word.
- 1 decade ago
You have the turpitude to use my name in your writing of that paragraph? (just kidding) And the only reason I have sympathy for a rabid dog is because I read Cujo by Stephen King! Fun question tho Dix!
Source(s): Writer/Friend - bruckcieLv 61 decade ago
Moral turpitude! Read your contract; I'll have you fired for moral turpitude!
- pj mLv 71 decade ago
Dix,
I once knew a young exotic dancer who later tried to clean up her act and get a teaching job. She was turned down in written form by the state due to charges of Moral Turpitude. (true by the way)
- readerLv 71 decade ago
To continue the sample paragraph:
To her mind, his turpitude was so far advanced as to exceed all bounds of charity.
