Adjective : hastily composed of base materials. ,an attempt to eliminate the base coinage. ,base language. ,base servitude. ,the base tones of a piano. From Dictionary.com.
For the Baronne o 'Braikley, who basely was slayn!. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference
In battle's heated fray; but should be basely drowned!. From Wordnik.com. [Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst] Reference
Of a surety ye must be glad, who have basely slain honour. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
And thus Amos found himself basely entrapped and taken prisoner. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
She accosted me with the air of one who had been basely swindled. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
I challenge you to return; you have basely maligned my character. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Another basely deserted him in the Strait and sailed back to England. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
'To dye, I thought it most certaine, but to dye basely, I would not: For. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
What do you mean, I beseech it, To basely reflect on my Tippet-de-wichet?. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference
How basely she had repaid Miss Harlowe, was her conscience-stricken thought. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
His accuser and his confederates had basely attempted to assassinate two noble. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
"I defended my friend, whom he had basely attacked," said Espérance, sullenly. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The terms of her accusation were too basely depraved to be even hinted at here. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Do you see now why I so basely deserted you and changed partners with Beauchamp?. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
I had never been thus basely poison'd! never thus treacherously sent out of the World!. From Wordnik.com. [A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)] Reference
It was evident that the villain did not recognize the woman whom he had so basely wronged. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
I then had never been thus basely Poison'd! never thus treacherously sent out of the World!. From Wordnik.com. [A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)] Reference
Lona, whose own handwriting had decoyed me, had most basely betrayed me into her husband's hands?. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
"We are basely betrayed," they cried out; "we are all undone; we have neither King nor General left!". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Or shall I basely betray that love which is proffered me, and embitter fair Noradin's future cup of life?. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
For the first time since he so deeply, basely wronged her, she felt a bitter feeling rising in her heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Ireland deserved what she suffered -- that she has been always sottishly discontented and basely ungrateful. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation] Reference
Putting the claims of an unborn infant before his comfort, Persis had basely abandoned him to the wiles of Susan. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
But the moment I knew how basely he had deceived us both, my heart began to turn against the man, and now 't is ice to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Your honours and your goods are forfeited, and I bestow them upon Suliman, your nephew, against whom you have acted so basely. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Caliph] Reference
England were most basely deserted; and a clause was inserted in the treaty respecting Newfoundland to the following effect. From Wordnik.com. [Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor] Reference
Kittrell was making more and more a mess of this whole miserable business, and he was basely glad when they reached the corner. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
We were content to know that we were fighting the Turk who had basely sold himself to the Central Powers, and were upholding the. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
Legislature, one who was elected as a Union candidate, and then basely betrayed his constituents, and afterward was re-elected as a. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
We basely suggest that it would bring a high price -- but sell soon, because after a while there'd be thousands of them hawked around. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Not basely to contract thy soul; nor boisterously to sally out with it, or furiously to launch out as it were, nor ever to want employment. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
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