Antonyms for basenessbase·ness

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1. basenessnoun

   Antonyms:
   honor, morality

   Synonyms:
   depravity, crass, amorality

2. basenessnoun

   The quality or condition of being base.

   Antonyms:
   morality, honor

   Synonyms:
   depravity, crass, amorality

3. basenessnoun

   The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.

   Synonyms:
   amorality, depravity, crass

   Antonyms:
   honor, morality

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1. • Unworthiness

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1. baseness, sordidness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicabilitynoun

   unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

   Synonyms:
   despicability, squalor, sordidness, despicableness, squalidness, contemptibility

How to use baseness in a sentence?

1. Leon Trotsky:

   Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

2. James Russell Lowell:

   In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

3. Bryant McGill:

   Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.

4. Akhlak-i-Jalali:

   All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*

5. William Shakespeare:

   Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.

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