Word Meanings - TURPITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. Shak.

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• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• BASENESS
  The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.
• DEPRAVITY
  The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn.
• INHERENTLY
  By inherence; inseparably. Matter hath inherently and essentially such an internal energy. Bentley.
• SHAMEFUL
  1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful. His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat. Arbuthnot. 2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a
• WICKEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness. God saw that the wickedness of man was great. Gen. vi. 5. Their inward part is very
• INHERENT
  Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A most
• PRINCIPLE
  Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. Cathartine is the bitter, purgative
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• HIGH-PRINCIPLED
  Possessed of noble or honorable principles.
• UNPRINCIPLE
  To destroy the moral principles of.
• UNPRINCIPLED
  Being without principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle. -- Un*prin"ci*pled*ness, n.