misbegotten


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mis·be·got·ten

 (mĭs′bĭ-gŏt′n)
adj.
1. Offensive Born to parents not married to each other.
2. Having an improper basis or origin; ill-conceived: misbegotten ideas about education.
3. Deserving of contempt: You misbegotten scoundrel!
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misbegotten

(ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtən)
adj
1. unlawfully obtained: misbegotten gains.
2. badly conceived, planned, or designed: a misbegotten scheme.
3. literary dialect Also: misbegot illegitimate; bastard
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mis•be•got•ten

(ˌmɪs bɪˈgɒt n)

also mis`be•got′,



adj.
1. unlawfully or irregularly begotten; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.
2. badly conceived, made, or carried out: a misbegotten plan.
[1540–50]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.misbegotten - born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman
bastardly, misbegot, spurious
illegitimate - of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
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misbegotten

adjective ill-conceived, abortive, ill-advised, hare-brained, poorly thought-out his grandiose and misbegotten plans
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misbegotten

adjective
Born to parents who are not married to each other:
baseborn, bastard, illegitimate, natural, spurious, unlawful.
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Translations

misbegotten

[ˌmɪsbɪˈgɒtn] ADJ → bastardo, ilegítimo; [plan etc] → descabellado, llamado a fracasar
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misbegotten

adj (liter: = illegitimate) → unehelich; (fig: = ill-conceived) → schlecht konzipiert
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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For my own part, if it was an honest man's child, indeed--but for my own part, it goes against me to touch these misbegotten wretches, whom I don't look upon as my fellow-creatures.
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"What should ail me to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe?
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Rather, as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me--something seizing, surprising and revolting-- this fresh disparity seemed but to fit in with and to reinforce it; so that to my interest in the man's nature and character, there was added a curiosity as to his origin, his life, his fortune and status in the world.
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It took 26 years, but director William Brown's reflective, richly textured revival of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" was worth the wait.
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Number 13--he hasn't been given the dignity of a name--is a groundling, a human-animal hybrid, suffering torment at the terrifying Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures.
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He was also an award-winning actor, taking home the Tony award for best actor in 2000 for his Broadway performance in the 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' revival.
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The NUJP said that the hackers were 'vermin, narrow-minded, misbegotten souls who mistakenly believe that they can silence critical speech and thought in their desire to force people into accepting only one worldview - theirs.'
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What's misbegotten dies, what falls away is elsewhere, always dimly starred on the horizon.
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