turpid

Anglais

Étymologie
Du latin turpis.

Adjectif

turpid \Prononciation ?\

  1. Turpide
    • … 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. — (Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856 ; traduction Eleanor Marx-Aveling)
    • I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! — (Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955)

Dérivés
  • turpidly

Apparentés étymologiques
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