| adjective | lacking in magnanimity; - Times Litt. Sup. “it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note” |
| adjective | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; - Edmund Burke; ; - Shakespeare “that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble” |
| baseness | noun | unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values |
| meanness | noun | the quality of being deliberately mean |