baseness
noun
1 baseness
Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.
synonyms: contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness.
Roget 940:
improbity†;
dishonesty,
dishonor;
deviation from rectitude;
disgrace
etc.
(disrepute)
874;
fraud
etc.
(deception)
545;
lying
etc.
544;
bad faith,
Punic faith;
mala fides [Lat.],
Punica fides [Lat.];
infidelity;
faithlessness
etc.
adj.;
Judas kiss,
betrayal.
breach of promise,
breach of trust,
breach of faith;
prodition†,
disloyalty,
treason,
high treason;
apostasy
etc.
(tergiversation)
607;
nonobservance
etc.
773.
shabbiness
etc.
adj.;
villainy,
villany†;
baseness
etc.
adj.;
abjection,
debasement,
turpitude,
moral turpitude,
laxity,
trimming,
shuffling.
perfidy;
perfidiousness
etc.
adj.;
treachery,
double dealing;
unfairness
etc.
adj.;
knavery,
roguery,
rascality,
foul play;
jobbing,
jobbery;
graft,
bribery;
venality,
nepotism;
corruption,
job,
shuffle,
fishy transaction;
barratry,
sharp practice,
heads I win tails you lose;
mouth honor
etc.
(flattery)
933.
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Roget 862:
cowardice,
pusillanimity;
cowardliness
etc.
adj.;
timidity,
effeminacy.
poltroonery,
baseness;
dastardness†,
dastardy†;
abject fear,
funk;
Dutch courage;
fear
etc.
860;
white feather,
faint heart;
cold feet [U.S.],
yellow streak [Slang].
coward,
poltroon,
dastard,
sneak,
recreant;
shy cock,
dunghill cock;
coistril†,
milksop,
white liver,
lily liver,
nidget†,
one that cannot say 'boo' to a goose;
slink;
Bob Acres,
Jerry Sneak.
alarmist,
terrorist†,
pessimist;
runagate
etc.
(fugitive)
623.
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Roget 874:
disrepute,
discredit;
ill repute,
bad repute,
bad name,
bad odor,
bad favor,
ill name,
ill odor,
ill favor;
disapprobation
etc.
932;
ingloriousness,
derogation;
abasement,
debasement;
abjectness
etc.
adj.;
degradation,
dedecoration†;
a long farewell to all my greatness
[Henry VIII];
odium,
obloquy,
opprobrium,
ignominy.
dishonor,
disgrace;
shame,
humiliation;
scandal,
baseness,
vileness†;
turpitude
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
infamy.
tarnish,
taint,
defilement,
pollution.
stain,
blot,
spot,
blur,
stigma,
brand,
reproach,
imputation,
slur.
crying shame,
burning shame;
scandalum magnatum [Lat.],
badge of infamy,
blot in one's escutcheon;
bend sinister,
bar sinister;
champain†,
point champain†;
byword of reproach;
Ichabod.
argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.];
sense of shame
etc.
879.
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Dutch: laagheid
Polish: nieszlachetność
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