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| type | s |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality |
| examples | that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble Edmund Burke taking a mean advantage chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort Shakespeare something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics |
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| Similar to | ignoble |
| Derivationally related form | mean → meanness |
| Derivationally related form | base → baseness |
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| Similar to | ignoble |
| Derived from adjective | basely → base |
| Derived from adjective | meanly → mean |
| Derived from adjective | meanspiritedly → meanspirited |
| Derivationally related form | baseness → base |
| Derivationally related form | meanness → mean |
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