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baseness

[bays-nis] / ˈbeɪs nɪs /


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

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2022

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

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

He’s watching the baseness of human nature, investigating it, trying to find the truth of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2020

He also played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Wolf Hall Parts One & Two,” and captures again the man’s voice, its taint of baseness, its ups and downs and quiet ruthlessness.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2020

I think they gloried in my squalor as proof of my baseness.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine


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