Antonyms for basest

Grammar : Adj

Spell : beys

Phonetic Transcription : beɪs

Definition of basest

Origin : "to place on a foundation," 1841, from base (n.). Related: Based; basing.

adj vulgar, low

Example sentences :

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

Synonyms for basest

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