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it the "most profligate administration ever known. — The Leading Facts of
English History;
• (turpitude)- vile, shameful, or base character; depravity, ( ;
); Here was an act of extreme heartlessness and turpitude, too bad
to be believed of one so ensconced in solemn plausibilities. — Shakespeare His
Life Art And Characters;
debauched = debased = dissipated = dissolute
• (debauched)- corrupt; vitiated in morals or purity of character; Coming
back by Cananor, he lodged in the house of a Christian, who himself was
religious, but his son debauched, and subject to all sorts of vices. — The
Works of John Dryden;
• (dissipated)- indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to
pleasure; intemperate; dissolute, (
); A hard-drinking, dissipated, and somewhat coarse-mannered cavalry
officer, he has often been a source of perpetual anger to the kaiser and of
distress to his sister, the excellent empress. — The Secret Memoirs of the Courts
of Europe;
• (dissolute)- indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper
conduct; licentious; dissipated, ( ; ); He was
depraved and dissolute, and, to satisfy his licentious desires, he is said to
have made free with the treasury—The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral;
dissolute > dissolution : decomposition
• (dissolution)- a bringing or coming to an end; disintegration; decay;
termination, ( / ); He was a member of
Harrington's Club till its dissolution, and of the Royal Society before it had
received the name. — Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American;
• (decomposition)- the state of being decomposed; decay, ( ; );
There was no sign of decomposition, and she realized that it was because the
room had been airless. — Suspicion;
amoral : iniquitous : miscreant : noncommittal^ nondescript
• (amoral)- not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality;
neither moral nor immoral, ( , ); In an age
enamored of machines, life becomes amoral, without moral bearings, devoid
of moral categories;
• (iniquitous)- characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful, (
); What could be more iniquitous than to attack me without a
declaration of war? — The Memoirs of Napoleon;