Moral turpitude denotes conduct showing vileness or depravity contrary to justice, honesty and a knowingly breached duty. Moral turpitude denotes conduct fundamentally contrary to justice, honesty or accepted moral standards, comprising acts of baseness, vileness or depravity that shock the moral sense of the community; it applies where an individual knowingly breaches a duty owed to another or to society, and is particularly invoked for offenses involving fraud, breach of trust or other serious ethical violations.