Base and Haughty

Base

Base adjective - Showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness.
Usage example: her base obedience to every unprincipled action ordered by her boss

Haughty is an antonym for base.

Nearby Words: basic, basal, based, baseline, baseball

Haughty

Haughty adjective - Having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude.

Base is an antonym for haughty.

Nearby Words: haughtiness, haughtily

Both words in one sentence

  • Manga / Evangelion 303 Break the Haughty: By the start of the history Asuka is the top pilot in the base, she knows it and ensures -loudly- that everyone else also knows it.
  • But attempts to produce them en masse when your industrial base is basically just a bunch of haughty Byzantine artisans (who do not know and do not want to know anything about, say, standardization) usually give interesting results.
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