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单词 baseness
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Definition of baseness in English:

baseness

noun ˈbeɪsnəsˈbeɪsnɪs
mass noun
  • Lack of moral principles; bad character.

    the baseness of human nature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her hero's commitment to a vision of honorable politics is clearly out of place in a context of political corruption, baseness, and compromise.
    • Ndibe infuses his work with traditional African values, sayings and beliefs that brilliantly parallel the baseness of a corrupt modern state on the brink of ruin.
    • Ensor employed notions of carnival and the mask motif to represent the rich baseness and corruption of modern man.
    • There was perhaps an assumption that the explicitness of some of the play's scenes, and the baseness of its religious characters, would outrage conservative Irish audiences.
    • There is no beast in the animal kingdom with the same capacity for baseness, for depravity and degradation as our lower classes sometimes display.
    Synonyms
    meanness, sordidness, evil, wickedness, iniquity, iniquitousness, immorality, sin, wrong
    unscrupulousness, unseemliness, unsavouriness, shoddiness, squalidness, vileness, foulness, vulgarity, tawdriness, cheapness, low-mindedness, debasement, degeneracy, depravity, corruption, reprobation, dissolution, dishonesty, dishonour, disreputableness, contemptibility, pettiness, ignominy, wretchedness, infamy
    rare turpitude

Definition of baseness in US English:

baseness

nounˈbeɪsnɪsˈbāsnis
  • Lack of moral principles; bad character.

    the baseness of human nature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her hero's commitment to a vision of honorable politics is clearly out of place in a context of political corruption, baseness, and compromise.
    • Ensor employed notions of carnival and the mask motif to represent the rich baseness and corruption of modern man.
    • Ndibe infuses his work with traditional African values, sayings and beliefs that brilliantly parallel the baseness of a corrupt modern state on the brink of ruin.
    • There was perhaps an assumption that the explicitness of some of the play's scenes, and the baseness of its religious characters, would outrage conservative Irish audiences.
    • There is no beast in the animal kingdom with the same capacity for baseness, for depravity and degradation as our lower classes sometimes display.
    Synonyms
    meanness, sordidness, evil, wickedness, iniquity, iniquitousness, immorality, sin, wrong
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