In Moscow the Province of Bessarabia is regarded as an Alsace-Lorraine, basely stolen by Rumania while the young Soviet Union was battling for its very life in 1918.
In a world so basely consecrated to the truth, Fiction (which is the art of lying) is still at least a semi-honorable profession.
Next day a spokes-man for Denver's women's clubs snorted that they had been "basely betrayed.