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  • adjective Unjustly gotten.

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  • adjective ill-gotten

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Examples

  • BLITZER: Congressman Putnam, the argument has been made forcefully by a lot of critics of the president that the Al Qaida threat today, in part, has increased because of the misgotten war in Iraq, that resources were diverted from going after Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in order to move those resources to Iraq where there was less of an imminent threat, shall we say.

    CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2007 2007

  • Go, and count over thy misgotten wealth; just census shall be taken of it; and if thou defraudest our holy impost by one piece of copper, thou shalt sup with Dives! '

    Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book V. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Go, and count over thy misgotten wealth; just census shall be taken of it; and if thou defraudest our holy impost by one piece of copper, thou shalt sup with Dives! '

    Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • To be jailed for two years is nothing if the offender gets to keep his misgotten

    WN.com - Articles related to Cuba's famed Tropicana nightclub still sexy and sinful at 70 2009

  • a poor little Philistine as Mrs. Maybough -- the mere figment of somebody else's misgotten money -- thinks of me.

    The Coast of Bohemia William Dean Howells 1878

  • _) You, Choco, do you show your face to me, misgotten whelp of a coyote!

    The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • "I am not mad; save it be madness that I have not hurled thee from this thy misgotten heritage.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

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