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The moral basement, where character goes when it stops climbing.
means The quality of being morally low, dishonorable, or contemptible in behavior or motive.
from From Latin bassus, meaning low or short, which crept into English as base — first describing physical lowness, then sinking, fittingly, into moral lowness.
Double meaningOnce meant lowborn rank, not just low conduct.
Chemistry alibiBase the chemical shares the root, not the shame.
Shakespeare stapleHis villains reek of baseness on cue.