basest
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Without inhibition, Ferrier believed that we’d all be slaves to our basest impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
And like the former president, Brand has channeled lessons from his early rise, betting on his basest self — and on the accommodations and calculations that those around him have always made.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
They prefer stuff like "Warrior Poet Society," because it flatters their basest instincts.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022
But rather, what was not cured by these well-intentioned agreements was the irrepressible bubbling up of the basest of human instincts.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2022
This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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