base-minded
Example Sentences
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Honesty to him is nice singularity, repentance superstitious melancholy, gravity dulness, and all virtue an innocent conceit of the base-minded.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
For all that, he does not appear in his writings a selfish or base-minded man.
From Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris
Ought she to have left it to a then new and small power to take vengeance on her mean, base-minded, yet powerful foe?
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware
She was not base-minded; nothing could have induced her to marry a man, however rich, whom she thought wicked.
From Cashel Byron's Profession by Bernard Shaw
"Wrong about what?" said Moulder, turning very sharply upon his base-minded compatriot.
From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
