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Synonyms for basest
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : beys |
| Phonetic Transcription : beɪs |
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Définition of basest
Origin :- "to place on a foundation," 1841, from base (n.). Related: Based; basing.
- adj vulgar, low
- The fellow has no property as respectable as the basest virtue of a wolf.
- Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
- To lie, to deceive, to circumvent even the basest of mankind was odious to him.
- Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
- One scarce realizes that this lovely spot is at the same time the basest.
- Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
- I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
- Extract from : « The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass » by Frederick Douglass
- This infamous magician, the basest of men, was the sole cause of my misfortune.
- Extract from : « The Arabian Nights » by Unknown
- I have found them, almost invariably, the vilest, meanest and basest of their class.
- Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
- The words I had uttered had sounded to Madeline like the basest insult.
- Extract from : « Humorous Ghost Stories » by Dorothy Scarborough
- He knew it would be an act of the basest ingratitude and selfishness.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
- And Alice was suspected of the basest and the blackest guilt!
- Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Would the basest hind in the field have lifted a sword against a woman?
- Extract from : « In Doublet and Hose » by Lucy Foster Madison
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