base-minded
Example Sentences
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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 S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
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
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
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
