Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Ignoble; contemptible.
- adjective Offensive Born to parents not married to each other.
- adjective Of humble birth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of base or low birth; born out of wedlock; of low or mean parentage or origin; spurious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Born out of wedlock.
- adjective Born of low parentage.
- adjective Vile; mean.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
bastard ,illegitimate - adjective Of lowly birth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective illegitimate
- adjective of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
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Examples
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“She has agreed to meet the Caesar in the field, and he will not hesitate, like a baseborn miscreant, to take every advantage in the encounter, which, I grieve to say, may in all likelihood be fatal to my mistress.”
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If they believe in anything at all, it is this: They view us as a reeking collection of wretched, baseborn rabble, who are, on an individual level, a few billion neurons short of being governable by honest means.
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"Until by the time they are forty, they have raging gout and big bellies and false teeth and baseborn mistresses spread halfway across England."
Hero Come Back Laurens, Stephanie 2005
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If it were so, the Countess would be no Countess, Anna Lovel would simply be Anna Murray, penniless, baseborn, and a fit wife for the tailor, should the tailor think fit to take her.
Lady Anna 2004
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All these years, it was believed that Sienna, our houseguest was but a baseborn mutt, a dog of undistinguished and humble origins.
Background revealed ladygoat 2004
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All these years, it was believed that Sienna, our houseguest was but a baseborn mutt, a dog of undistinguished and humble origins.
August 2004 ladygoat 2004
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Moreover, more of the courtiers than Anne had begun to notice the king's growing affection for his baseborn son.
This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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I am the King's true daughter and an anointed queen; you are his baseborn son.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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I am the King's true daughter and an anointed queen; you are his baseborn son.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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And as he talked with them, that baseborn man, whose name was
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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