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Miller says her service allows men to indulge their basest fantasies.

At the basest human level, I was just worried about how I would provide for my family.

The advantage of a fundamentalist perspective is that you can clothe your basest motives in noble sentiments.

Planner, in these three words, could only read—ingratitude—the basest it had ever been his lot to meet.

It was then the badge of infamy and sign of shame—the punishment of the basest of slaves and the vilest of malefactors.

The deuce fly away with literature, for the basest sport in creation.

Those faithful soldiers—he must show his gratitude to them; he had forgotten them in the basest manner.

In a word, he did rip up all that could be said that was unworthy, and in the basest terms they could be spoken in.

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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to basest, such as: paltry, poor, shoddy, plebeian, humble, and offensive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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