base-minded
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Benefits conferred on base-minded people are like drops of water thrown into the sea.
From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Ought she to have left it to a then new and small power to take vengeance on her mean, base-minded, yet powerful foe?
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware
"Wrong about what?" said Moulder, turning very sharply upon his base-minded compatriot.
From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
I wonder how base-minded that king thinks me, that, with patience, I can digest this dishonourable ——.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Frank Harris
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