Definition of "crapule" []

• Same as crapulence. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But of course the news never stop and there are a few items that need to be caught up with, from the passing of a great leader of peace and its realtion with Venezuela, to the ignominious appeal to hatred and war of a minor crapule within chavismo."
• "The genial disdain of Michel Rollin, who called them impostors, was answered by him with vituperation, of which crapule and canaille were the least violent items; he amused himself with abuse of their private lives, and with sardonic humour, with blasphemous and obscene detail, attacked the legitimacy of their births and the purity of their conjugal relations: he used an Oriental imagery and an Oriental emphasis to accentuate his ribald scorn."
• "Michel Rollin, who called them impostors, was answered by him with vituperation, of which crapule and canaille were the least violent items; he amused himself with abuse of their private lives, and with sardonic humour, with blasphemous and obscene detail, attacked the legitimacy of their births and the purity of their conjugal relations: he used an Oriental imagery and an Oriental emphasis to accentuate his ribald scorn."