baseness

noun

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as in vileness

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  1. wickedness
  2. depravity
  3. enormity
Noun
  • 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
  • Burkhart’s wickedness is more intimate, more complex, more human.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of wickedness
Noun
  • Kendrick Lamar and Drake made a show out of accusing one another of depravity.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Like the elder Herbert’s male leads, Prophecy’s women willfully perpetuate a cycle of abused power and depravity.
    Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of depravity
Noun
  • The enormity of everything else becomes too difficult to ignore.
    William Guillory, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Yet in 2024, Swift balanced the enormity of her superstardom with the most vulnerable music of her career, including songs written about the trappings of that superstardom.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of enormity
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