baseborn
Example Sentences
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He scorned the feeble, ignorant, baseborn, wellborn, and those who loved him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only Robb and his baseborn half brother Jon Snow had been old enough to be worth his notice.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
If it were so, the Countess would be no Countess, Anna Lovel would simply be Anna Murray, penniless, baseborn, and a fit wife for the tailor, should the tailor think fit to take her.
From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
Jacob the supplanter, Jacob the changeling, Jacob the baseborn!
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
One might be a noble and still not belong to the knightly order, and, on the other hand, one baseborn might be raised to knighthood on account of some valorous deed.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
