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Six example sentences with turpitude, each labelled with its topic.
The license may be revoked for any conviction involving turpitude, a phrase the board has spent decades trying to define.
Law
The partnership agreement voids a partner's stake in cases of financial turpitude, which only the outside auditors may allege.
Business
Victorian charity rolls sorted applicants by character, denying help to anyone whose poverty a visitor's report blamed on turpitude.
History
The assembly expelled the member for turpitude after the bribery conviction, the first such vote in forty years.
Politics
The investors' lawsuit alleged plain turpitude: forged statements, invented returns, and client money moved into private accounts.
Finance
The novel's banker is a study in turpitude, forging wills and cheating widows while chairing the town's charity board.
Literature
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