base person
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Limmer, lim′ėr, n. a mongrel-hound: a base person, esp. a jade.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
He has also changed the titles of a good many pieces, especially where the original involved the name of some fictitious or base person.
From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)
Not once in all her life did he know her to give her affection to a base person; and if ever he disregarded her antipathies, he did it to his cost.
From Love's Pilgrimage by Sinclair, Upton
There was no one that the Romans despised so much as a traitor, and the general thought this old woman was the most mean and base person he had ever met.
From Stories from English History by Skae, Hilda T.
Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose; he is not their fellow.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
