What is "basely"

Usage examples of "basely".

This he basely commanded to be defaced, and it was as basely done by the hand of Mr.

I heard the clatter of the hurdles as the others rapped them, and basely hoped they had made stumbling, time-wasting landings.

He likewise urged, as the principal motive to his inflexible severity against this man, that he had basely suffered Tom Jones to undergo so heavy a punishment for his sake, whereas he ought to have prevented it by making the discovery himself.

I have been basely accepting a gratitude that rightly belongs to him, and I assure you he is in far more danger from Sibley than I am.

As soon as the stubborn Praetorians could be convinced that they fought for a prince who had basely deserted them, they surrendered to the conqueror: the contending parties of the Roman army, mingling tears of joy and tenderness, united under the banners of the imagined son of Caracalla, and the East acknowledged with pleasure the first emperor of Asiatic extraction.

Raised, enriched, intrusted with the first dignities of the empire, they basely conspired against their benefactress.

It was, I supposed, basely possible we'd chance upon something worth finding before our oxygen ran out.

In his return by sea from an unfortunate crusade, Louis the Seventh was intercepted by the Greeks, who basely violated the laws of honor and religion.

Mary Kinglsey 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.

Or if they shrank from the supreme sacrifice, it never occurred to them that they acted otherwise than basely in preferring their personal existence to the interests of their country.