BASELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basely mean? 

• BASELY (adverb)
  The adverb BASELY has 1 sense:

1. in a despicable, ignoble manner

  Familiarity information: BASELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a despicable, ignoble manner

Synonyms:

basely; meanly; scurvily

Context example:

this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society

Pertainym:

base (having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality)

 Context examples 

What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

' I didn't hear any more, for I basely turned and fled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mary Kingsley insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her readers were not particular about such trifles as grammar, punctuation, and probability, and Mr. Dashwood graciously permitted her to fill his columns at the lowest prices, not thinking it necessary to tell her that the real cause of his hospitality was the fact that one of his hacks, on being offered higher wages, had basely left him in the lurch.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)