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baseness

[beys-nis] / ˈbeɪs nɪs /


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

From BBC Feb. 5, 2022

The interesting existential tidbits about agency, morality and artificial intelligence play second string to the straw-man argument about the baseness of consumerism.

From New York Times Aug. 12, 2021

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

I think they gloried in my squalor as proof of my baseness.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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