baseness
- n unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
- Prescott's Spain was a darkly dramatic land, and he populated it with villains of incredible baseness and heroes of astounding virtue.
- My most anxious thoughts then and thereafter were to cleanse myself of some of this depravity and baseness .
- The story is involved with honor, baseness, torture, swordplay, quite a good chase, and some polite bows toward history.