baseness

[ UK /bˈe‍ɪsnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
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  • She is the first who has redeemed the name of sutler from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness and plunder, and I trust that England will not forget the one who nursed her sick and who sought out her wounded to aid and succor them and who performed the last office for some of her illustrious dead. World’s Great Men of Color
  • She is the first who has redeemed the name of "sutler" from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness, and plunder; and I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
  • There was perhaps an assumption that the explicitness of some of the play's scenes, and the baseness of its religious characters, would outrage conservative Irish audiences.
  • Ensor employed notions of carnival and the mask motif to represent the rich baseness and corruption of modern man.
  • Yes in vain might we search our vocabulary and be disappointed still in finding language that would express in proper terms the baseness of this principle, that would describe the polluted heart of him or hear who could thus unfeelingly and without a fear reduce inch by inch an innocent being to the lowest grades of degradation. Letter from Mary Houston to Young John Allen,September 14, 1855
  • Regent, and still looked forward to a cardinalship as the reward of his scheming, his baseness, and his perfidy. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • For many ages men, and particularly those engaged in the literary field of thought, have discanted on the baseness of the passion of jealousy. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries
  • She was now wholly confirmed that he had wronged her with Mr Delvile; she could not have two enemies so malignant without provocation, and he who so unfeelingly could dissolve a union at the very altar, could alone have the baseness to calumniate her so cruelly. Cecilia
  • But now your antagonist is a feeble girl, who has been unfortunate from her very birth; to destroy her would be an act of baseness to which you never yet descended. The Hidden Hand
  • For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. Think Progress » Bachmann: ‘We’re hoping that President Obama’s policies don’t succeed.’
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