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
O unhappy and baseborn men! you who prefer to depart from this life under the name of Hortensius rather than of Cato!
From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Elizabeth Price Sayer
Jacob the supplanter, Jacob the changeling, Jacob the baseborn!
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
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
