Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unlawfully or irregularly begotten: used also as a general epithet of opprobrium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad or disreputable origin; pernicious.
- adjective Poorly designed or planned; badly carried out; ill-conceived.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
misbegotten ; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective born out of wedlock
Etymologies
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mis- + begot
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Examples
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That would be at the time he would be lying with Hugh's sword-stroke in his thigh, and calling himself a misbegot, and not fit to be speaking to decent folk.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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"I don't want to hear nothing about that misbegot vixen."
The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Of misbegot things that no poet would father 'em; --
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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