Meaning & use
baseness
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The quality of being morally low, dishonorable, or contemptible.
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The novel exposes the baseness beneath the character's polished public image.
There was a baseness in the way he mocked the very people who had helped him.
A note on using this word
Derives from 'base' in its old sense of 'low' or 'inferior,' a meaning that survives mostly in moral judgments rather than physical description.
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