mindmap root((卑鄙)) base stresses the ignoble and may suggest cruelty, treachery, greed, or grossness: real estate developers with ~ motives. low may connote crafty cunning, vulgarity, or immorality and regularly implies an outraging of one’s sense of decency or propriety: refused to listen to such ~ talk. vile the strongest of these words, tends to suggest disgusting depravity or foulness: a ~ remark; the ~st of crimes.