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adj. illegitimate

adj. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

Fuzzynyms (9)

corrupt, crooked

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

base, mean, scurvy, contemptible, currish, meanspirited, mean-spirited

adj. 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"

Synonyms (11)

adulterine

adj. conceived in adultery

fatherless

adj. not having a known or legally responsible father

left-handed

adj. (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"

wrongful, unlawful

adj. having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to the throne"

common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed

adj. of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"

ignoble, untitled

adj. not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"

Antonyms (1)

noble

adj. of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; "of noble birth"

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