Turpitude

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An excellent word meaning wickedness, depravity or extreme naughtiness of a kind you will not find in a god-fearing Wiki such as this, where, as one flagellates oneself with a whip of cold spaghetti, one meditates only upon the golden mean.

Also the original name for what became known as discredit derivatives — virtue-signal hedging, effectively.

See also

• Nudeln and the bracing experience of Kaltenudelnaufhautfreude — literally “the joy of cold spaghetti on exposed skin”.
• Discredit derivatives