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base person
noun as in bottom feeder
Example Sentences
I freeze his face in my mind, his warm eyes beckoning me to him, his arms holding me, protecting me while a base person spits at him.
Limmer, lim′ėr, n. a mongrel-hound: a base person, esp. a jade.
How this base person employed his power may be discovered from the fact, that it became his constant habit, when he desired to obtain the signature of the queen to any distasteful document, to vituperate her in the lowest language, and shake his fist in her face.
It is not amiss to see what is said of them both by that pamphlet which was then by some base person published of their arraignment and execution; for that being written in as disgraceful manner of them as could be devised, it is the surer witness of anything that may be well interpreted of their mind.
He has also changed the titles of a good many pieces, especially where the original involved the name of some fictitious or base person.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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