baseness

n

1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black-heartedness; balefulness, dread-fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness, iniquity, nefariousness, flagitiousness, heinousness; sinfulness, ungodliness, profanity, blasphemy; abomination, outrage, enormity, flagrancy, atrocity; damnableness, fiendishness, hellishness, devilishness; criminality, feloniousness, lawlessness; perfidy, treachery, recreancy, traitorousness, disloyalty, treason; villainy, knavery, roguery, miscreancy, rascality.

2. depravity, turpitude, degradation, depravation, debauchery; profligacy, reprobacy, reprobateness, degeneracy, dissipation; dissolution, immorality, obliquity, unchastity; wantonness, salaciousness, salacity, prurience; carnality, bestiality, perversity.

3. offensiveness, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, disagreeableness; repulsiveness, repugnance, repel-lence, distastefulness; loathsomeness, odiousness, odium, hatefulness, despicability, despicableness, de-testability; contemptibility, insufferableness, scurviness; opprobrium, ignominy, disgrace, obloquy; infamy, notoriety, disrepute, disreputableness; shame-fulness, contemptuousness, discreditability.

4. cowardice, cowardliness, pusillanimity, poltroonery, unmanliness, Inf. yellow streak; dastardliness, dastardly, cravenness; faint-heartedness, diffidence, nervousness, tremulousness, Inf. cold feet; timidity, apprehension, dread, fearfulness, Inf. funk.

5. servility, subservience, lowliness, submissiveness, slavishness; obsequiousness, sycophancy, fawning, unctiousness.

6. paltriness, triviality, trivialness, pettiness; insignificance, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, worth-lessness; meagerness, scantiness, skimpiness, slightness, feebleness.

7. obscenity, coarseness, vulgarity, crudity, grossness, rudeness; smuttiness, filthiness, dirtiness; ribaldry, Archaic. bawdry; unseemliness, indecorum, indecency, impropriety.

8. fraudulence, pretense, fraud, Inf. phoniness, speciousness, spuriousness; forgery, sham, fake, counterfeit, imitation, fabrication; adulteration, alloy, debasement, pinchbeck.

9. wretchedness, misery, abjectness; squalor, shabbiness, seediness, abasement; dreariness, dismalness, miserableness; beggary, poverty, destitution.

10. illegitimacy, bastardy.