A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice:
— The various turpitudes of modern society.

synonym: depravity.

Roget 874: disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation etc. 932; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness etc. adj.; degradation, dedecoration^†; a long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy.    dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness^†; turpitude etc. (improbity) 940^†; infamy.    tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution.    stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.    crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum [Lat.], badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain^†, point champain^†; byword of reproach; Ichabod.    argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.]; sense of shame etc. 879.    ... show more

Roget 940: improbity^†; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace etc. (disrepute) 874; fraud etc. (deception) 545; lying etc. 544; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides [Lat.], Punica fides [Lat.]; infidelity; faithlessness etc. adj.; Judas kiss, betrayal.    breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition^†, disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostasy etc. (tergiversation) 607; nonobservance etc. 773.    shabbiness etc. adj.; villainy, villany^†; baseness etc. adj.; abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling.    perfidy; perfidiousness etc. adj.; treachery, double dealing; unfairness etc. adj.; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor etc. (flattery) 933.    ... show more

Dutch: schandelijkheid, schanddaad, zedenbederf
Polish: popsucie, zdeprawowanie, zdemoralizowanie, zepsucie