base-minded

Example Sentences

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This desirable end can only be attained by making it respectable, and sheltering its professors from the insult and oppression of the ignorant, the base-minded, and the illiberal.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

"Wrong about what?" said Moulder, turning very sharply upon his base-minded compatriot.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony

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 Ware, William

Benefits conferred on base-minded people are like drops of water thrown into the sea.

From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

I wonder how base-minded that king thinks me, that, with patience, I can digest this dishonourable ——.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir