Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.
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Examples for "baseness "
Examples for "baseness "
1 He exalted the dignity of labor, and scorned all baseness and lies.
2 They are not in love with baseness : it is forced upon them.
3 In the discovery of her baseness , she had made a poor figure.
4 Upon the line of baseness , - the deserter is placed next to the traitor.
5 When Parker painted the moral baseness of the times, men acquiesced shamefacedly.
1 For her it was the last depth of sordidness and the commonplace.
2 The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness .
3 This soul poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution.
4 But, increasing in seriousness, it must not be allowed to increase in sordidness .
5 There seemed a stark sordidness in the situation that repelled me.
1 I had not had in mind when I spoke the contemptibility of suicide to these people.
2 The old ballad, "I wish I were where Helen lies," is silly to contemptibility .
3 Neutrality, on the uncertainty and contemptibility of.
4 In its way it was a tragedy-thegrimmest of all-forits dominant note was the contemptibility of human nature.
5 Cowardice, political, contemptibility of.
1 O the meanness, the despicability of men who begrudge a woman the right to work anywhere, in any honorable calling!
2 John Milton almost glorified him by witchery of description, but he is the concentration of all meanness and of all despicability .
3 "What acts of petty despicability have you wrought this day?"
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