improbitatem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →improbitas, improbitatis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wickedness unscrupulousness, dishonesty; shamelessness; want of principle;
acc. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...imitari, sic acriter propulsare oportebit, et ipsorum improbitatem retundendo, et iudices vel praesidentis magistratus appellando frequentius ut loquendi..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...multos, qui etiam defenderent [,quam multos, qui propter improbitatem faverent]! Ac, si illo sublato depelli a vobis omne..." - T
Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...centuriones militesque uestros—adeo in promiscuo licentiam atque improbitatem esse uoluit—Pleminios fecit; omnes rapiunt, spoliant, uerberant, uolnerant..."