base-minded

Let's not let reality get in the way of sick, base-minded partisan attacks!

"Stop prying into other people's vaginas, even if you happen to oppose them politically. What is wrong with you people?" Ann Althouse 2008

For all that, he does not appear in his writings a selfish or base-minded man.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Every mouth is opened against him for his sordid ways — A foolish man, to be so base-minded! —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The base-minded Knight, coveting to have the Horse, and yet not to part with any money, sent for the Magnifico, desiring to buy his fayre Gelding of him, because he hoped to have him of free gift.

The Decameron 2004

The trouble was infinite, the exactions being prosecuted far, touching a great number of persons, bringing disrepute on Galba, and general hatred on Vinius, who made the emperor appear base-minded and mean to the world, whilst he himself was spending profusely, taking whatever he could get, and selling to any buyer.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

This desirable end can only be attained by making it respectable, and sheltering its professors from the insult and oppression of the ignorant, the base-minded, and the illiberal.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

For all that, he does not appear in his writings a selfish or base-minded man.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

To the pleasures of base-minded and unpolished men,

Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse Thomas Burke 1915

She was not base-minded; nothing could have induced her to marry a man, however rich, whom she thought wicked.

Cashel Byron's Profession George Bernard Shaw 1903

-- The "equality of souls before God" -- this fraud, this pretext for the rancunes of all the base-minded -- this explosive concept, ending in revolution, the modern idea, and the notion of overthrowing the whole social order -- this is Christian dynamite ....

The Antichrist 1895