The tactic employed by rivals was invariably that of trying to demonstrate first administrative incompetence and then, if possible, moral turpitude.
It waxes in wickedness, moral turpitude knows no limit.
Ghost fiction was, often, stereotypically associated with woman writers, but so, at various times, were prosy domesticity, moral superiority, moral turpitude, and just about everything else.
The question of moral turpitude of the driver does not enter into the question of the new general driving test.
Some have a degree of moral turpitude; others in each case are offences simply due to our ordinary human frailty.
That is not efficiency; it is crass moral turpitude.
A polygon is always a hideous thing, but when on a hillside a polygon of trees is a turpitude.
It was a longish list, but it included ineptitude as well as turpitude.