baseness

The problem is that most of us have already seen the world’s baseness — if not in person then in newspapers and on prestige cable television.

There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.

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

“What baseness! Well, if she abuses you, come to me, and I’ll defend you.”

The interesting existential tidbits about agency, morality and artificial intelligence play second string to the straw-man argument about the baseness of consumerism.