baseborn

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I am baseborn, an impostor, an adventurer, the son of the peasant and the servant, the grandson of the butcher.

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  1. adjective Ignoble; contemptible.
  2. adjective Born of unwed parents; illegitimate.
  3. adjective Of humble birth.

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  • I am baseborn, an impostor, an adventurer, the son of the peasant and the servant, the grandson of the butcher. —  The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
  • Quite clever with her colors, don't you know," he drawled, plucking the down on his upper lip, for he was trying to raise a mustache, convinced that two waxed points of hair at each corner of his mouth would impress the hotel waiters and other facchini_--baseborn Don't be a jackass!" —  The Lure of the Mask
  • "She has agreed to meet the Caesar in the field, and he will not hesitate, like a baseborn miscreant, to take every advantage in the encounter, which, I grieve to say, may in all likelihood be fatal to my mistress Why dost thou think so?" —  Waverley Novels — Volume 12
  • The greatness of thy undertaking does but show the nobleness of thy soul, in that it cannot, will not, be content with such low and dry as the baseborn spirits that are of the world can and do content themselves withal. —  Works of John Bunyan — Complete
  • Call him baseborn, and since his ways are sweet, —  Idylls of the King
 

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