| The Athenians, we may believe, had been tainted by the baseness of their confederates. |
| There is no beast in the animal kingdom with the same capacity for baseness, for depravity and degradation as our lower classes sometimes display. |
| Her hero's commitment to a vision of honorable politics is clearly out of place in a context of political corruption, baseness, and compromise. |
| Cicero held that the province of the ridiculous lay in a certain baseness and deformity. |
| The baseness of arguments that are presented to us in the film clubs and elsewhere do not give us the opportunity to reply seriously. |
| All this is redolent of high sophistication, not the brutal baseness of murder. |
