Synonyms for baseness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : beys |
| Phonetic Transcription : beɪs |
Définition of baseness
Origin :- 1550s, from base (adj.) + -ness.
- noun meanness
- The Athenians, we may believe, had been tainted by the baseness of their confederates.
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- Has what he has said of me, Madam, convinced you of Mr. Lovelace's baseness?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- But their baseness lies in their privacy, not in their publicity.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- Besides that I should know it to be hopeless, I should know it to be a baseness.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- Clement could not thoroughly believe in the baseness of the woman he had trusted.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- Upon the line of baseness,—the deserter is placed next to the traitor.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete » by Lewis Goldsmith
- There was an epidemic of baseness over the land, and but few escaped the contagion.
- Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
- She had not yet grasped the baseness of what he had thought and done.
- Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
- For the baseness of the soul consists in not being pure and sincere.
- Extract from : « An Essay on the Beautiful » by Plotinus
- Mr. Ezra Gold is a person who would not stop at any act of baseness or cruelty.
- Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray
Antonyms for baseness
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