Baseness
['beisnis]
Definition
(n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
Editor: Shanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Meanness, vileness, despicableness, contemptibleness, abasement, worthlessness, abjectness.[2]. Disgrace, ignominy, infamy, shame, dishonor, turpitude.
Checker: Monroe
Examples
- What baseness! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Do you think I would remain an instant in the company of any man whom I suspected of such baseness as that? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The baseness of communing and intriguing with the fellow who would have set that stain upon her, and upon her brother too, was attained. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He retired to the old home town of Arbois, and sought to d istract his mind from the contemplation of human baseness. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If they imitate they should imitate, not any meanness or baseness, but the good only; for the mask which the actor wears is apt to become his face. Plato. The Republic.
- Villainy is the matter; baseness is the matter; deception, fraud, conspiracy, are the matter; and the name of the whole atrocious mass is--HEEP! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It seldom happens, that we do not think an enemy vicious, and can distinguish betwixt his opposition to our interest and real villainy or baseness. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A man cannot serve two masters, and as the question of whose side you would embrace was simply one of bribery, I took advantage of your baseness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There could be naught of cruelty or baseness beneath that godlike exterior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Besides that I should know it to be hopeless, I should know it to be a baseness. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- How was he to live on without vindicating himself among people who suspected him of baseness? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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