Basely
['besli]
Definition
(adv.) In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
(adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.
Typed by Bartholdi
Examples
- He has been most shamefully abused, and most unjustly and most basely driven away, and I am the cause of it! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You see, Maurice, old as I am, I can still rhapsodize on Chloe's perfections, though she basely deceived me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Brummell I will certainly expose; because he has basely obtained a sum of money from my friend. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We basely replied that we rather thought we had noticed such a man. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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