misbegotten

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This coming from a man who has given trillions away in misbegotten, wasteful, so-called stimulus, that have stimulated nothing except a destruction of the free market?

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or being a child or children born to unmarried parents.
  2. adjective Not lawfully obtained: misbegotten wealth.
  3. adjective Having an improper basis or origin; ill-conceived: misbegotten ideas about education.

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  • "Misinformed, misbegotten, mistaken, misapprehended Never mind," Breanna said somewhat curtly. —  Up In A Heaval
  • States which do not serve this purpose are misbegotten, monstrosities in fact. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: The State
  • “Though He is slow to acknowledge it, I believe Adonai Himself is proud of His son Elua, misbegotten or no,” he said. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • If not for these eight misbegotten, calamitous years of the Bush administration, the state of the world would be just fine as we begin 2009, right? —  Asia Times Online
  • It was implemented because of a misbegotten, ignorant fear - fear of non-existent gangs wielding their non-existent supremacy by dressing in non-existing gang colors.
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/mɪsbikˈgɑt, ˈgɑtn/
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