basest
Example Sentences
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But the effect on most of its victims was to bring out their basest instincts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Detractors said the app catered to the basest human interests — celebrity gossip, scandal, disaster and violence — to keep users hooked as long as possible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
They prefer stuff like "Warrior Poet Society," because it flatters their basest instincts.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022
But rather, what was not cured by these well-intentioned agreements was the irrepressible bubbling up of the basest of human instincts.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2022
This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
