turpid
Adjective
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Adjective
turpid
- Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, as translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- [...] things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, as translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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