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How to pronounce baseness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness
Type of unworthiness
Derivation base

Examples of baseness

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In the mist, age and youth, nobility and baseness are indistinguishable-somehow all one.
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LeDray seems animated by the idea, but he wants to transform baseness into something finer, into art.
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Judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion.
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Of course only because of my own baseness and rottenness.
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The scenario may sound common enough, but it departs from the typical chick-flick formula in the baseness of its humour.
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He is the celebration of human baseness.
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My contempt for the folly and baseness of mankind, my hatred of its atrocious cruelty, have never been so intense.
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He has been perceived as a person full of the ideal of Erasmo and gifted with a moral superiority over the courtesan baseness.
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Knights were taught to excel in the arms, to show courage, to be gallant and loyal and to swear off cowardice and baseness.
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More examples
  • Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
  • (basely) meanly: in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society"
  • The quality or condition of being base; The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value
  • (basely) In a base manner