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baseness
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baseness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meanness |
| Synonyms: | debasement, degeneracy, depravity, immorality, rudeness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | disgrace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of shame; bad reputation |
| Synonyms: | abasement, abuse, baseness, black eye, blemish, blur, brand, comedown, contempt, contumely, corruption, culpability, debasement, debasing, defamation, degradation, derision, disbarment, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humbling, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, infamy, ingloriousness, meanness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pollution, prostitution, put-down, reproach, scandal, scorn, slander, slight, slur, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, turpitude, venality |
| Antonyms: | esteem, exaltation, honor, respect |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | iniquity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sin, evil |
| Synonyms: | abomination, baseness, crime, evildoing, heinousness, immorality, infamy, injustice, miscreancy, misdeed, offense, sinfulness, unfairness, unrighteousness, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | inequity is 'injustice, unfairness'; iniquity refers to 'immorality, sin, wickedness' |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | turpitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depravity |
| Synonyms: | baseness, corruption, criminality, debasement, debauchery, degradation, evil, immorality, improbity, lewdness, licentiousness, perversion, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vileness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | ignominy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offensive behavior |
| Synonyms: | baseness, disgrace, lowness, meanness, sordidness |
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
| Synonyms: | abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | villainy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wickedness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, baseness, depravity, knavery, rascality, scoundrelism, turpitude, viciousness, vileness |
| Main Entry: | ill repute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace |
| Synonyms: | abasement, abuse, bad name, bad odor, baseness, black eye, blemish, blur, brand, comedown, contempt, contumely, corruption, culpability, debasement, debasing, defamation, degradation, derision, disbarment, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humbling, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, ingloriousness, meanness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pollution, prostitution, put-down, reproach, scandal, scorn, shame, slander, slight, slur, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, turpitude, venality |
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