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Bastardly

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Adjective

1. bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious

born out of wedlock

Example Sentences:
'the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring'

2. bastardly, mean

of no value or worth

Example Sentences:
'I was caught in the bastardly traffic'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bastardly

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noun
1. informal, derogatory
an obnoxious or despicable person
2. informal, often humorous
a person
lucky bastard
3. informal
something extremely difficult or unpleasant
that job is a real bastard
4. old-fashioned or offensive
a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate baby, child, or adult
5. 
something irregular, abnormal, or inferior
6. 
a hybrid, esp an accidental or inferior one
adjective (prenominal)
7. old-fashioned or offensive
illegitimate by birth
8. 
irregular, abnormal, or inferior in shape, size, or appearance
9. 
resembling a specified thing, but not actually being such
a bastard cedar
10. 
counterfeit; spurious

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Bastardly

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noun
1. 
a person born of parents not married to each other; illegitimate child
2. 
anything spurious, inferior, or varying from standard
3.  Slang
a person regarded with contempt, hatred, pity, resentment, etc. or, sometimes, with playful affection
a vulgar usage
adjective
4. 
of illegitimate birth or of uncertain origin
5. 
of a size or shape that differs from the normal or standard
6. 
that is not truly the designated thing but that closely resembles it
gneiss is called bastard granite
7. 
not genuine; sham; inferior

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bastardly

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n.
1. Offensive A person born to parents not married to each other.
2. Slang
a. A person considered to be mean or contemptible.
b. A person, especially one considered to be unfortunate: “crumbling shacks where some poor bastard had tried to raise a family” (Tom Clancy).
3. Something that is of irregular, inferior, or dubious origin.
adj.
1. Offensive Born to parents not married to each other.
2. Not genuine; spurious: a bastard style of architecture.
3. Resembling a known kind or species but not truly such.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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