Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for baseborn
Adjective
  • Abarth is low cost, high return and should be encouraged.
    Mark Phelan, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • Still the newcomers flood in, attracted by the climate, lake and lower cost of living than other parts of the country.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Nothing in the court’s opinion, however, required states to create voucher programs, much less implied that reserving public education funds for public schools was illegitimate.
    Derek W. Black, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
  • Peters was found guilty in August on seven counts convicting her for assisting in facilitating unauthorized access to voting equipment after the 2020 election, aiming to bolster Trump’s claim the election results were illegitimate.
    Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • Below that sits the pedestrian CLK 500 and plebeian CLK 350.
    Jeremy Korzeniewski, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Across the lake, on the plebeian side, up the shoreline a mile or so, in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, stand twin 32-story towers dubbed Trump Plaza of the Palm Beaches.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Netflix 19 of 20 A Tale of Two Kitchens (2019) The modest length of this short — which clocks in at 30 minutes — reflects its humble attitude.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 11 May 2025
  • Flatten It Out Sea turtles don't have much mobility on land, and even the humblest sand structure can be a major obstacle to nesting females making their way across the sand or to hatchlings heading back toward the water.
    Katie Akin, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • If this story were a parable, our hero would likely suffer some ignoble end as punishment for his moral failings.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
  • Rudy Giuliani, who was once considered a national hero for his leadership during 9/11, and who went down in a spray of legal and financial troubles after tying himself to Trump, arguably represents a third category, of mayors who are both ignoble and indelible.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • Ser Luthor Largent is introduced as a lowborn knight and office on the City Watch.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Few spoke up for the man viewed by many as a lowborn upstart, but Cromwell, his faithful servant, was the exception, petitioning Henry at great risk to his own reputation.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Robbins: Is the East an inferior conference compared to the West?
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • Before and after each game, Warriors coach Steve Kerr has talked about how Golden State has to play with pace, execute the gameplan defensively and win the possession battle — basically, all of the controllables that an inferior team in a matchup has to execute in order to pull off an upset.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Another option to assess training intensity is to look at how the unwashed masses train: to sift through reams of data looking for the patterns and variables that predict the best race performances.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Besides the health concerns, unwashed skin simply doesn’t look its best.
    Lauryn Higgins, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Baseborn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baseborn. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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