baseness

Example Sentences

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Algeria's ambassador to France said it was an act of "unspeakable baseness".

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2022

He’s watching the baseness of human nature, investigating it, trying to find the truth of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2020

He also played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Wolf Hall Parts One & Two,” and captures again the man’s voice, its taint of baseness, its ups and downs and quiet ruthlessness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2020

Acid rain from laze has a pH, a measure of a substance’s acidity or baseness, of between 1.5 and 3.5 and “has the corrosive properties of dilute battery acid,” the agency said.

From Reuters • May 20, 2018

I think they gloried in my squalor as proof of my baseness.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine