baseness
Utter lack of principles
Baseness is the quality of being morally low, contemptible, or degraded.
It suggests actions or motives that violate basic standards of decency or honor: the baseness of betraying a friend for money, He was shocked by the sheer baseness of the accusation.
The word carries a literary or formal tone, implying not just wrongdoing but a fundamental lack of nobility or principle.
Despicable quality
- turpitudeInherent wickedness or vileness
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- iniquityMoral wrongdoing, grave injustice
- moral corruptionDegradation of ethical principles
degeneracy · immorality · sinfulness · vice · malevolence · nefariousness · evil · perversion
Lower status or quality
- subordinationLower position in hierarchy
- servilityExcessive willingness to please
- obsequiousnessServile eagerness to please
- meannessSpiteful, unkind disposition
pettiness · insignificance · commonness · lowness · humbleness · wretchedness · abjectness · sordidness
Extreme unhappiness or distress
- sordidnessMoral or physical foulness
- filthFoul, accumulated matter
- degradationDecline in condition
- shabbinessWorn, neglected condition
seediness · dinginess · squalidness · griminess · dilapidation · neglect · poverty · misery
Openness to bribes
- dishonestyDisposition toward falsehood
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
- graftIllicit political gain
- malfeasanceUnlawful act by officeholder
fraud · unethical conduct · sleaze · underhandedness · exploitation · embezzlement · extortion · profiteering
Rough or vulgar quality
- crudenessLack of sophistication
- crassnessTactless, unrefined behavior
- tastelessnessLack of aesthetic judgment
- indelicacyWant of propriety
indecorum · grossness · boorishness · uncouthness · earthiness · ribaldry · lewdness · obscenity
vileness
Despicable quality
- turpitudeInherent wickedness or vileness
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- iniquityMoral wrongdoing, grave injustice
moral corruption · degeneracy · immorality · sinfulness · vice · malevolence · nefariousness · evil · perversion · reprobation
inferiority
Lower status or quality
- subordinationLower position in hierarchy
- servilityExcessive willingness to please
- obsequiousnessServile eagerness to please
meanness · pettiness · insignificance · commonness · lowness · humbleness · wretchedness · abjectness · sordidness · contemptibility
wretchedness
Extreme unhappiness or distress
- sordidnessMoral or physical foulness
- filthFoul, accumulated matter
- degradationDecline in condition
shabbiness · seediness · dinginess · squalidness · griminess · dilapidation · neglect · poverty · misery · destitution
venality
Openness to bribes
- dishonestyDisposition toward falsehood
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
- graftIllicit political gain
malfeasance · fraud · unethical conduct · sleaze · underhandedness · exploitation · embezzlement · extortion · profiteering · duplicity
coarseness
Rough or vulgar quality
- crudenessLack of sophistication
- crassnessTactless, unrefined behavior
- tastelessnessLack of aesthetic judgment
indelicacy · indecorum · grossness · boorishness · uncouthness · earthiness · ribaldry · lewdness · obscenity · profanity
- moral statesmorality, immorality, virtue, vice, righteousness
- dishonestydishonesty, deceit, duplicity, lying, mendacity
- filthdirt, grime, dirty, filthy, muck
- scandalscandal, infamy, disgrace, coverup, cover-up
- vicesgreed, envy, lust, gluttony, vanity
- savagerybarbarism, barbarity, brutality, brutishness, cruelty
basenessvirtue
Moral goodness or merit
nobility · honor · goodness · righteousness · uprightness
basenessnobility
Titled ruling class
nobleness · aristocracy · gentility · refinement · dignity
basenessmagnanimity
Generous, noble spirit
generosity · high-mindedness · altruism · benevolence · selflessness
base, basement, debase, abase, debasement, abasement, debased, debasing, debaser