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French
Etymology
From bas + -esse.
Pronunciation
Noun
bassesse f (plural bassesses)
- baseness, lowness, contemptibility
1954, Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse:Je croyais que ma vie pourrait se calculer sur cette phrase, s’en inspirer, en jaillir comme une perverse image d’Épinal : j’oubliais les temps morts, la discontinuité et les bons sentiments quotidiens. Idéalement, j’envisageais une vie de bassesses et de turpitudes.- I believed that my life could be calculated on this sentence, inspired by it, springing from it like a perverse image of Epinal: I forgot the dead times, the discontinuity and the daily good feelings. Ideally, I envisaged a life of baseness and turpitudes.
- something trivial
- (derogatory) quality of being of low, unnoble birth
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