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
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..."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..."Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...centuriones militesque uestros—adeo in promiscuo licentiam atque improbitatem esse uoluit—Pleminios fecit; omnes rapiunt, spoliant, uerberant, uolnerant..."