baseness

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Noun
  • The Year of the Dragon, which began on Feb. 10, 2024, ended Tuesday to begin the Year of the Snake. Snakes in Chinese mythology aren't manifestations of wickedness or evil as in Western cultures.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Less familiar is the part that his American wife, Fanny Stevenson (née Van de Grift), played in juicing up the story’s plot to establish Edward Hyde’s wickedness early on.
    Tobias Grey, airmail.news, 10 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • In the past, Scorsese’s frenetic pacing and constant stylization could distract us from the depravity of his characters, at least a little bit.
    Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
  • But also the endless torture, rape, and other depravity.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That’s because Pound had won the Bollingen with great fanfare, which set off an enormity of scandal and attacks on him.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The player who so often can’t resist the attention that comes with the circus of his own making gets replaced with the steely assassin required to grasp the enormity of the task of taking on Alcaraz.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Baseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baseness. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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