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81dig — vb to understand, appreciate or enjoy. A word from the slang of American swing and jazz musicians which was adopted by the beat generation and thence by teenagers all over the English speaking world. It is now almost always used iron ically or… …
82abject — a. Base, vile, mean, low, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, dirty, squalid, grovelling, pitiful, ignoble, degraded, worthless, poor, servile, slavish, menial, cringing, sneaking, sordid, shabby, scurvy, miserable, wretched, low minded,… …
83base-minded — a. Mean, low, vile, grovelling, beggarly, pitiful, despicable, abject, low minded, mean spirited …
84beggarly — a. 1. Destitute, indigent, needy, poor. 2. Sorry, mean, abject, base, low, paltry, shabby, vile, scurvy, miserable, contemptible, despicable, pitiful, pitiable, servile, slavish, grovelling, mean spirited, niggardly, stingy, scant, wretched,… …
85earth-born — a. 1. Terrigenous, born on the earth, sprung from the ground. 2. Of low birth, of mean extraction, meanly born. 3. Earthly, low, mean, base, abject, grovelling, earth bred, unspiritual, merely temporal …
86earth-bred — a. Low, base, vile, abject, grovelling, earth born, earth fed …
87earthly — a. 1. Terrestrial. 2. Sensual, sordid, worldly, low, grovelling, vile, base, gross, earthly minded, earth born, earth fed, earth bred, carnal, unspiritual. 3. Natural, merely natural or physical, temporal, carnal, merely temporal, non spiritual.… …
88low-minded — a. Base minded, base, mean, servile, vile, grovelling, slavish, abject, low …
89mean-spirited — a. Base, low, beggarly, vile, grovelling, pitiful, despicable, abject, low minded, base minded, cowardly, timid …
90paltry — a. 1. Small, little, diminutive, inconsiderable, insignificant, unimportant, petty, miserable, wretched, slight, slender, feeble, trifling, trivial, of no consequence, of no importance. 2. Base, vile, abject, grovelling, low, mean, beggarly,… …
