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baseadjective not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decencya base and sneaky act that is a clear violation of international law contemptible, currish, despicable, detestable, dirty, dishonorable, execrable, ignoble, ignominious, low, low-down, low-minded, mean, nasty, paltry, snide, sordid, vile, wretched bad, black, evil, foul, immoral, iniquitous, miscreant, wicked, wrongcruel, viciousblamable, blameworthy, censurable, reprehensiblecorrupt, debased, debauched, degenerate, depraved, dissolute, pervertedatrocious, villainousunethical, unprincipled, unscrupulousdiscreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, shameful, unworthy high, high-minded, honorable, lofty, noble, straight, upright, venerable, virtuous ethical, honest, just, principled, righteous, right-minded, scrupulouscommendable, excellent, exemplary, good, moral, rightdecent, proper, reputable, respectable, seemlyblameless, guiltlessincorruptible, irreproachableuncorrupted, unerring showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissivenesstheir base obedience to every unprincipled action ordered by their leader abject, humble, menial, servile, slavish hangdog, lamblike, sheepishdemure, lowly, meek, modest, retiring, unassuming, unpretentiousfawning, sycophant, sycophantic, toadyish arrogant, haughty, high-handed, imperious, lordly, supercilious, superior, uppity basenounan immaterial thing upon which something else reststhe firm belief that complete trust between partners is the base of any successful marriage basis, bedrock, bottom, cornerstone, footing, foundation, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning, warp, warp and woof anchorage, bed, brace, bulwark, buttress, framework, infrastructure, mount, prop, shore, stay, substratum, substructure, supportassumption, justification, premise(also premiss), presumption, presupposition, rationale, supposition, theory, thesis, warrantbackbone, center, core, eye, focus, heart, hub, kernel, nucleus, seatessence, quintessence, soul, touchstone a place from which an advance (as for military operations) is madethe army's base of attack was kept top secret until the battle began bridgehead, foothold staging area, staging groundbeachhead, camp, center, emplacement, footing, front, headquarters, installation, stationairbasebastion, fastness, fortress, strongholdbattlefront, fieldtoehold a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interestthe base of the industry is California's Silicon Valley axis, capital, center, central, core, cynosure, epicenter, eye, focus, ground zero, heart, hub, locus, mecca, navel, nerve center, nexus, nucleus, omphalos, seat headquartershappy hunting ground, hive, hotbed, hot spot, playground, playlandkernel, nub, pithdeep, thickessence, quintessence, soulattraction, lodestone(also loadstone), magnet, polestar where it's at the lowest part, place, or pointthe base of the mountain extends over a huge area make sure the base of the stove rests evenly on the floor basement, bottom, foot, nadir, rock bottom basis, bed, bedrock, foundation, ground, groundwork, keystone, seat, underpinning head, top, vertex acme, apex, climax, crest, culmination, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tip, tip-top, zenith the place from which a commander runs operationsthe army base is three miles down the road command, command post, headquarters home, seat baseverbto find a basisshe based her argument on careful research ground, hang, predicate, rest establish, foundassume, postulate, premise, presume, presuppose, suppose adj.base, low, vile mean deserving of contempt because of the absence of higher values.base stresses the ignoble and may suggest cruelty, treachery, greed, or grossness.base motives low may connote crafty cunning, vulgarity, or immorality and regularly implies an outraging of one's sense of decency or propriety.refused to listen to such low talk vile, the strongest of these words, tends to suggest disgusting depravity or filth.a vile remark in the 14th century |