base-minded

Example Sentences

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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

She was not base-minded; nothing could have induced her to marry a man, however rich, whom she thought wicked.

From Cashel Byron's Profession by Shaw, Bernard

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)

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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