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base
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{adj}
synonyms: sordid, ignoble ???
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Definition:without moral principles
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"How base you are!" said Zinaida Fyodorovna, wringing her hands in despair. "Even if you are not sincere, and are not saying what you think, I might hate you for your cruelty. Oh, how base you are!"
Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
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And he recalled his brother Nikolay, and dwelt with pleasure on the thought of him. "Isn't he right that everything in the world is base and loathsome?
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
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"It's five-and-twenty pound, Mum," echoed that basest of swindlers, Pumblechook, rising to shake hands with her;
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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“If you’ll not let me be spiritual about it, you’ll have to put up wi’ my baser nature. I’m going to be a beast.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
he doesn’t trouble himself to reflect on the causes he might have for mistrusting one whom he has basely injured.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Siddhartha wandered along a strange, twisted path of this last and most base declivity through a game of dice.
Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Translated by Hilda Rosner), p.79 (1951)
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