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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) The condition, quality, or realm of a bastard; bastards collectively.
There are so many eligible fathers in bastarddom.
It has been untenanted since the death of Lord Raspberry's aunt, "Lady Dolly Dray, the novelist, whose fat resources were built from the scurrilous, scandalising spiteful scions of bastarddom always found trampling on the heels of fame".
'That is new a level of bastard-dom.
You knew, before they'd even done anything, that these kids were trouble. Or, as Parker told the National Post in 1998, “Third grade is really the time when you are at your peak of bastard-dom. That's where the gold mine is.”
Now you wanna go off all half-cocked and take on one of the most powerful bastards in all of bastard-dom?
Use bastard-dom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bastard-dom means (rare) The condition, quality, or realm of a bastard; bastards collectively.
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There are so many eligible fathers in bastarddom.
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