Baseness in a sentence as a noun

It needs no base of its own, because the relative wholeness of the plant is relative baseness to its parts.

There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?- Epictetus

And the opposite is true: when perfect anonymity is reached, baseness and vulgarity are the ruling factors.

But what I am trying to get at is that political and nationalistic symbols exist in every country and the trick is not to do the easy work and point out its baseness or ridicule it when we see it some place else.

We should abhor the so-called "practical" men whose practicality assumes the shape of that peculiar baseness which finds its expression in disbelief in morality and decency, in disregard of high standards of living and conduct.

> “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”

Baseness definitions

noun

unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

See also: sordidness contemptibility despicableness despicability