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Synonyms for baseness
base·ness
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baseness, sordidness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicabilitynoun
unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
Synonyms:
despicability, squalor, sordidness, despicableness, squalidness, contemptibility
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basenessnoun
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meanness, vileness, despicableness, contemptibleness, abasement, worthlessness, abjectnessbasenessnoun
Synonyms:
disgrace, ignominy, infamy, shame, dishonor, turpitude
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#44344 | crass | |
#55791 | depravity | |
#80520 | squalor | |
#166371 | baseness | |
#226487 | amorality |
How to use baseness in a sentence?
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.
Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.
All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.
Translations for baseness
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- προστυχιάGreek
- bajezaSpanish
- zemiskumsLatvian
- baixezaPortuguese
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