base-minded

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This desirable end can only be attained by making it respectable, and sheltering its professors from the insult and oppression of the ignorant, the base-minded, and the illiberal.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

"Wrong about what?" said Moulder, turning very sharply upon his base-minded compatriot.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony

Honesty to him is nice singularity, repentance superstitious melancholy, gravity dulness, and all virtue an innocent conceit of the base-minded.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Liberal and brave men live best, they seldom cherish sorrow; but a base-minded man dreads everything; the niggardly is uneasy even at gifts.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson

For all that, he does not appear in his writings a selfish or base-minded man.

From Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Harris, Frank