base
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～ (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
base
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～ of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
base
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～ serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
base
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～ having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "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"
base
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～ debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
base
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～ not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds"
baseborn
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～ of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
based
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～ having a base of operations (often used as a combining form); "a locally based business"; "an Atlanta-based company"; "carrier-based planes"
based
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～ having a base; "firmly based ice"
baseless
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～ without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"
bashful
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～ disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
bashful
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～ self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
basic
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～ of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
basic
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～ pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
basic
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～ reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
basic
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～ serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
basidial
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～ relating to or characterized by basidia
basidiomycetous
— Adjective
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～ pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes