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