Turpid
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
"[...] 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."
Example
More examples"[...] 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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin turpis, with the suffix -id.
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