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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin turpis, with the suffix -id.
Adjective
turpid (comparative more turpid, superlative most turpid)
- Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
1856, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary:[...] 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!
Translations
foul; base; wicked; morally depraved
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