baseness

Example Sentences

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The problem is that most of us have already seen the world’s baseness — if not in person then in newspapers and on prestige cable television.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

Algeria's ambassador to France said it was an act of "unspeakable baseness".

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2022

He’s watching the baseness of human nature, investigating it, trying to find the truth of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2020

He also played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Wolf Hall Parts One & Two,” and captures again the man’s voice, its taint of baseness, its ups and downs and quiet ruthlessness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2020

They are merely honest and call a thing by its name; for there is a very great deal of fraud, injustice, and baseness in the army.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque