Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or being a child or children born to unmarried parents.
- adj. Not lawfully obtained: misbegotten wealth.
- adj. Having an improper basis or origin; ill-conceived: misbegotten ideas about education.
Wiktionary
- adj. born out of wedlock; illegitimate
- adj. ill-conceived
WordNet 3.0
- adj. born out of wedlock
Examples
“The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during his campaign to pull forces from what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.”
“The increases are in line with promises President-elect Barack Obama made during the campaign this year to pull forces out of what he calls a misbegotten Iraq war and concentrate on a neglected Afghanistan.”
“U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has repeatedly committed to send three or four additional brigades, creating a total of 20,000 more troops, into Afghanistan in 2009, as his new administration shifts focus away from what he's called the misbegotten Iraq war.”
“One kind of misbegotten movie derided by C. B.'s possee has gotta be George Cukor's lugubrious My Fair Lady, also shown on TCM this weekend.”
“Kanshin would have thought that this "Hadanelith" was some kind of misbegotten sport, created from a normal man by the mad magic, if he had not once seen the Emperor's kestra-chern, The Silver Veil, with his own eyes.”
“My completely irresponsible speculation is that perhaps (a) as others have postulated, it’s some kind of misbegotten effort to force Fitz’s hand, or (b) they’ve gotten some kind of vibe that an indictment is coming down.”
“Bush is a serial failure without a single success in his long, drunken, sordid, misbegotten career.”
“One need not minimize the danger of Beck's rhetoric in order to wonder why JFSJ -- which has significant credibility among progressives -- has not mounted an equally passionate critique of misbegotten analogies on the left.”
The Washington Post: EXCLUSIVE: Holocaust historian's quote used to slam Beck without permission
“The misbegotten, misunderstood 2007 NIE on Iran allowed the urgency of the situation to be denied.”
“As I learned from reading a roll of the Waco dead, for instance, more than half of those killed during the misbegotten tank attack in 1993 were racial or ethnic minorities, 39 out of 74 to be precise, six of them Hispanic, six of Asian descent, and a full 27 of them black, ages six to sixty-one.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misbegotten’.
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Get, Got, Gotten
get a move on, misbegotten, got the gimmes, don't get me started, man's gotta eat, get a life, get lost, got religion, cat got your tongue?, get together, get the lead out, got milk? and 72 more...
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kickassery
words that kick ass, in the non-literal sense
keraunophilia, vituperative, archnemesis, megafauna, Brontotherium, haruspex, vainglory, immanent, tarasque, aurochs, fraktur, photophore and 75 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 2: More Common
pilgrim, indubitably, incorrigible, bombastic, histrionics, depredation, perspicuity, discombobulate, peregrination, ambulatory, redux, fractious and 164 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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Some Wednesday words
Just another arbitrary list of words that come up for me today, June 20 2007
tutelage, hobby horse, abracadabra, occipital, martinet, margarita, persona, cute, sharp, acute, confabulate, conspire and 97 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand.
flunky, provenance, pare, rabbit in a covert, short shrift, bunker, trainers, tatty, lob, injunction, doss, bluster and 193 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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vocab
hard word word 4 strong vocab
ostracize, importune, impute, scintillate, mulct, deprecate, procrastinate, rusticate, vegetate, expiate, emulate, gesticulate and 345 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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A Nation Among Nations
Words taken from A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History by Thomas Bender.
filiation, tympana, terraqueous, entrepot, lineament, tout court, oikoumene, pax turcica, feitoria, routinize, numerousness, limingl and 82 more...
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tainteford's Words
poltroon, threadbare, anomie, maudlin, sot, federletus, vituperative, taciturn, circumlocution, treacle, magnanimous, battleaxe and 61 more...
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amusing insults
Words that you can use to insult people. The best was when I called my (then) bf a crumb bum (I was kidding!) and he was genuinely insulted! How the hell anyone could take that seriously, I do not ...
twitterpated, insipid, prat, twit, brat, twerp, flibbertigibbet, milquetoast, lollygagger, slubberdegullion, curmudgeon, clodhopper and 63 more...
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palooka's Words
abysmal, iridescence, behemoth, misbegotten, fathomless, catwalk, foible, vapid, caravanserai, happenstance, addled, congeries and 29 more...
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