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 Translation for 'turpitude' from English to Swedish
NOUN   turpitude | turpitudes
SYNO depravity | turpitude
skändlighet {u}turpitude
uselhet {u}turpitude [moral corruption]
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Translation for 'turpitude' from English to Swedish

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turpitude
skändlighet {u}
turpitude [moral corruption]
uselhet {u}
Usage Examples English
  • Good moral character is the opposite of moral turpitude, another legal concept in the United States used in similar instances.
  • In July 2022, the State Bar filed disciplinary charges against Dunn, alleging three counts of moral turpitude during his time heading the organization and seeking his disbarment.
  • Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the United States and prior to 1976, Canada, that refers to "an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community".
  • Immigration officers denied his entry claiming issues of moral turpitude.
  • The book deals with the descent into moral turpitude of a boy at a boarding school or English public school of that era.

  • In the 2003 elections, Feiglin was refused permission to run on the Likud list by the Central Elections Committee as Israeli law that states that a person convicted of a crime of "moral turpitude" within the last seven years may not be elected to the Knesset (Feiglin was convicted of blocking Israeli roads in acts of civil disobedience to protest the Oslo Accords in the early 1990s as a co-leader of the Zo Artzeinu movement).
  • However, the same regulation also prohibits "personnel who were dishonorably separated/ reverted/ discharged from the service and personnel who were convicted by final judgment of an offense involving moral turpitude" from interment at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
  • As a student, Hariprasanna was very spirited and would be upset at the sight of any moral turpitude or social injustice.
  • The Vichy papers deplored the moral turpitude and decadence that was affecting French morality.
  • It also expands the criteria for deportation for crimes of moral turpitude.

  • A two-thirds majority vote of the city council can remove the mayor from office for a willful violation of duty or an offense involving moral turpitude.
  • Likewise, the name is a nod to turpentine and turpitude.
  • Most applicants would be protected from deportation with exception of individuals who had committed a crime of moral turpitude, which carried a sentence of at least 6 months, posed a national security risk, or was deemed a threat to public safety.
  • The common grounds for exclusion are persons likely to become a public charge, persons who have been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude and persons not properly documented.
  • Only 3 states — Iowa, Kentucky, and Virginia — permanently disenfranchised a felony convict and 6 other states limited restoration based on crimes of "moral turpitude".

  • His article, "Guns, Collective Bargaining and Moral Turpitude: Gilbert Arenas and the National Basketball Association" examined the standards by which the NBA assesses moral turpitude and whether Gilbert Arenas' contract could have been terminated on such grounds in the wake of his decision to bring a gun into the Washington Wizards' locker room.
  • In the era of moral turpitude, everything is fearless, life is worthless.
  • Proposition C would prohibit City employees who have committed a crime of moral turpitude involving their employment from drawing funds from the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System that came from employer contributions.
  • On 2 September 2017, the Indian Film & Television Directors’ Association (IFTDA) and the Cine and TV Artists Association (CINTAA) banned Ram Rahim from future work in Indian film and television for "criminality and moral turpitude".
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